eddie flores: the purpose of arch is very simple-- it's the pride of the chinese community. way for us to promote chinatown, to invigorate chinatown, to help us, you know, bring tourists in. this is where i do all my shopping in here. and that's my cousin working. my two cousins from the same village in china. (speaking chinese language) - hello! (conversing in chinese language) here in chinatown, you can buy anything. look at this-- dried fish. dry scallop. so we're excited, because we want to clean up chinatown. we want to bring it back to what it used to be, to promote businesses. and this to me is very important. ♪ kwock-shubert: chinatown can be a shining jewel. if there are more people involved in realizing how special a place it is. and i hope everybody has more of a civic-mindedness to give some time to help. ♪ narrator: honolulu chinatown rebuilt after the 1899 plague and fire, and i'm hopeful for better days after this pandemic, when i can bring my children to see their great-great-grandfather's name on the archway and learn of the lecy of this place. ♪ ♪ in the su