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Madame Wong, RIP

Matt Welch | 8.18.2005 12:14 PM

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Esther Wong, Godmother of L.A. Punk, was born in Shanghai, fled the commies for Los Angeles, and started booking punk and new wave bands in her Chinatown club as a sixty-something grandmother. She once stopped a Ramones show mid-set to make them clean the graffiti in the club's bathroom. L.A. Times obit here.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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