CHINESE immigrants and well-to-do Manhattan socialites lie together in drug-induced stupor – victims of the epidemic of opium addiction that spread across America in the late 19th century. Ra… ...

Agents Chris Hansen and H.A. Moodie hold seized opium in Los Angeles on April 22, 1935. Ingeniously hidden under a load of oranges in the rear of an auto driven by a Chinese man, this store of ...

Seeking a local speakeasy in NYC? Look no further than this swanky basement bar for classic cocktails, intriguing history, ...

Of the great number of opium dens that formerly graced our city, all of them have gone up in smoke with a single exception,” the news article reported. ADVERTISEMENT.

This is opium prepared for smoking." In his Opium-Smoking in America and China (New York, 1882), Harry Hubbell Kane described an "opium den" in which stood "a pleasant-faced Chinaman who, with scales ...

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San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved." Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled ...

The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory—and Unsavory—History Venture into the Montana eatery, once a gambling den and opium repository, that still draws a crowd ...

Can opium dens and secret tunnels get people to stop for lunch in this Bay Area city? Historians question tales of “the most desperate town in the West,” but Pleasanton hopes it sells ...

War on Drugs. The Best of Reason: Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America's First Drug War San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of ...