Dong curated old photos of Chinese American actors for the newly restored Formosa Café, an iconic Hollywood nightclub and bar that opened in 1939.
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Formosa
//fɔɹˈmoʊ.sə//
Synonyms for "formosa" (2 found)
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Korean
1 entries- 포르모사 name (Argentinian city, department, and province)
Latin
1 entries- Formosa name (Argentinian city, department, and province)
Spanish
1 entries- Formosa name (Argentinian city, department, and province)
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The Formosa Cafe in Los Angeles first opened its doors in 1939 and was a frequent watering hole for people in the movie industry.
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Taiwan's main island was historically known as Formosa.
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Heere we had the higheſt Land of Formoſa, South-eaſt, the neereſt land about eight leagues off, the neather point of it Eaſt by North ten leagues off our depth, fortie ſixe fathomes ozie : the latitude twentie fiue degree twentie minutes. From the high Land of Formoſa, ſtretcheth out a lower Land to the water-ſide, being a white ſandy ſhoare, and ſmooth ſand Hils farther vp the Countrey, much like to the Coaſt of Barbary.
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