Jim (Wah Bo) QUOCK
1920 from Guangdong, China
Arriving as a paper son, Jim Quock was allowed to land after three weeks of intensive interrogations at the Angel Island Immigration Station. Jim worked in a San Francisco Chinatown restaurant starting as a dishwasher, waiter, and cook, and eventually becoming part owner.
(Portrait by Tien Tran, SFSU 2016)