Poy (James) WONG
1915 from Guangzhou, China
Fourteen-year-old Poy Wong was interrogated and detained on Angel Island for forty-five days. To pass the time he had a tattoo that he later regretted. Poy traveled to Augusta, Georgia and subsequently owned the Wong Woey Too Grocery Store. He was the youngest and first Chinese to purchase a 1921 Model T convertible that he got for $400.
(Portrait by Evelyn Garcia, SFSU 2016)
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