Go Dutch to the Dutch Club AVIO

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • March 27, 2014
We were just a block from Disneyland, about to enter a squat-looking building on Katella Avenue out of a Van de Kamp's bakery ad campaign. This was the Dutch Club AVIO, the only such social club for Dutch-Indonesians in Southern California—and...
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