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Chinese Community Bulletin Board

bulletin board in Seattle, Washington, U.S

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ115202163 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Chinese Community Bulletin Board (also known as the Chinatown Community Bulletin Board, traditional Chinese: 華埠社區公佈欄; simplified Chinese: 华埠社区公布栏) is installed on the eastern exterior of the Louisa Hotel in Seattle's Chinatown―International District, in the U.S. state of Washington. Located at 511 Seventh Ave. S, the board was installed in the 1960s and designated a Seattle Historic Landmark in 1976. KING-TV has called the fixture "Seattle's original social media board". King County has included the board as a point of interest in a walking tour of the district.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chinese Community Bulletin Board” as bulletin board in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chinese, Community and Bulletin can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as bulletin board in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115202163. Authority coordinates are 47.598, -122.324. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chinese Community Bulletin Board” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.