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Photo of Chow Bing Kew's immigration registration

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Chow Bing Kew is registered as an immigrant to the United States at the port of San Francisco, California.  He soon moves inland to Stockton, California, and begins using the name Sam Wahyou.  He is 18 years old.  He is allowed to enter the country because his father was already a naturalized citizen, although he had since left the country.  He soon moves to Stockton, California, and in that same year opens DayLite Market with business partner Tommy Lee.

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A photo of a letter written by Fong Young Lieu's brother as application for her to enter the United States.

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Fong Young Lieu immigrates to the United States to join Sam Wahyou.  In the same year, she and Sam are married, and she begins to use the name Lucy Wahyou. She is about 27 years old.

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Photos of Sam Wahyou (top left), Lucy Wahyou (top right), and Susie Jean Wahyou (bottom), taken in the early 1940's.

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Susie Jean Wahyou is born in Dameron Hospital in Stockton, California.  She is the first child of Sam and Lucy Wahyou. Sam and Lucy will have one more child, Samuel John Wahyou, in 1951.

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An 1886 political cartoon about the Chinese Exclusion Act created by the George Dee Magic Washing Machine Company.

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The United States' Chinese Exclusion Act ends. Since it was approved in 1882 it prevented Chinese citizens from entering the United States unless they had received certification from the Chinese Government. If a Chinese person who had been living in the United States at the time ever left the U.S., they were required to gain certification in order to re-enter. And although the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed, it was only because China became part of the Allied Nations during World War II. In addition, there were strict restrictions on it, only allowing 105 immigrants into the U. S. per year.

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Ronald Chan (far left) with his family, taken in the 1940's.

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Ronald Chan is brought with one of his brothers from Oregon to Stockton, California. His sisters and parents do not stay there with him and he is raised by the Chinese community of Stockton, California.

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Photo of Centro-Mart's logo.  Image by Groceteria.com.

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Sam Wahyou's business DayLite Market reopens as Centro-Mart.  The business is successful and employs many Chinese immigrants living in Stockton at the time. The chain of supermarkets would stay in business until 2011.

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Susie and Ronald Chan on their wedding night, taken in 1959.

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After knowing each other for many years, Susie Wahyou and Ronald Chan are married.  As the child of a Stocktonian public figure, Susie's wedding reception garnered 800 wedding guests.

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All 4 of the Chan siblings: Tina (top), Randy (right), Rhonda (bottom), and Sam (left)

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Samantha Lynn "Sam" Chan is the 3rd child of Susie and Ronald Chan.  She has an older brother, Randall "Randy" Chan, who was born in 1961, and an older sister, Rhonda Chan, who was born in 1963.  Susie and Ronald will have their 4th child, Christina "Tina" Chan in 1969.

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Rock band Duran Duran releases the album "Rio." Sam Chan was in high school at the time. Duran Duran was one of her favorite bands and she distinctly remembers listening to their music in high school. She also participated in various other 1980's trends and styles.

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Sam Chan's college graduation photo, taken in 1989.

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Sam Chan graduates from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology. The first two years of her college education were completed at San Joaquin County Delta College, before she transferred to UC Berkeley.

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The remains of the Cypress Freeway which ran through Oakland, after the Loma Prieta earthquake.  Image by Forbes.

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The 6.9 magnitute Loma Prieta Earthquake hits the California Bay Area.  The earthquake kills 63 people and injures more than 3,700 more. It rendered the Bay Bridge unusable for a month and damaged areas of Santa Cruz, San Francisco's marina district, and Oakland's Interstate 880. Sam Chan is walking to her car as it hits, ready to drive to a friend's house to watch the Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giants play in the World Series.

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Photo of the Twin Towers during the 9/11 attacks.  Image from Encyclopedia Brittanica.

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Islamist extremist group al-Qaeda carries out four suicide terrorist attacks on the United States by hijacking airplanes and using crashing them into important United States government buildings. The first two planes were flown into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. The third was used to destroy the western face of the Pentagon, and the fourth was allegedly meant to attack the U.S. Capitol, however the passengers fought back and the plane was crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. In total, the attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and injured thousands more.

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A Photo of Sam Chan and Klaus Berkling on their wedding day in 2004.

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After dating for 7 years, Sam Chan and Klaus Berkling are married in 2004 in the Stockton Courthouse in Stockton, California.

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Sam Chan (far left) with her sisters and mother while pregnant, taken in 2004.

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Lucy Katherine Chan Berkling (Me!) is the first and only child of Sam Chan and Klaus Berkling.  Sam had just finished pre-med school at Cal State Hayward (now known as Cal State East Bay), and took the MCAT while pregnant.  She enrolled into San Joaquin Delta College's nursing program in 2006 after taking two years to raise her child.

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Sam Chan and Lucy Berkling at Sam's graduation from San Joaquin County Delta College's Nursing program, taken in 2010.

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Sam Chan graduates from San Joaquin County Delta College with a nursing degree. Following this, she works as a nurse for a short time but does not enjoy it. Following this, she works for the Tracy Branch Library in Tracy, California as a library assistant, where she works to this day.

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Klaus Berkling gives Lucy K. C. Berkling a haircut during quarantine, taken April 2020.

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The COVID-19, or Coronavirus, disease sweeps the world into a global pandemic. Schools in Stockton, including Lucy Berkling's high school, Lincoln High School, is closed as California is put into lockdown. In 2020, COVID-19 would be the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States, killing over 350,000 people in 2020 alone. 34,000 more would die in relation to the disease; the disease was not the main cause, but contributed to these deaths. The worldwide pandemic and resulting lockdown period would spark large amounts of anti-Asian racism due to the disease's source in China.