https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko en-us 2023-03-12 03:35:37 UTC 2026-02-07 10:08:03 UTC hello@padlet.com lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515545455 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.]]> 2023-03-14 05:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515545455 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515552289 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.]]> 2023-03-14 05:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515552289 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515554105 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.]]> 2023-03-14 05:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515554105 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515806489 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.]]> 2023-03-14 09:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515806489 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515814796 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.]]> 2023-03-14 09:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515814796 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515828483 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.]]> 2023-03-14 09:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515828483 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515833609 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.]]> 2023-03-14 09:56:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515833609 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515862686 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.]]> 2023-03-14 10:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2515862686 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2517201033 After dating for 7 years, Sam Chan and Klaus Berkling are married in 2004 in the Stockton Courthouse in Stockton, California.]]> 2023-03-15 05:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2517201033 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2517206546 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.]]> 2023-03-15 05:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2517206546 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2517209315 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.]]> 2023-03-15 05:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2517209315 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2517210957 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.]]> 2023-03-15 05:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2517210957 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2517432488 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.]]> 2023-03-15 09:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2517432488 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2518579859 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.]]> 2023-03-16 01:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2518579859 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2518585455 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.]]> 2023-03-16 01:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2518585455 lberkling2 https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2518617623 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.]]> 2023-03-16 01:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lberkling2/sc3bx5wavm6arnko/wish/2518617623