The story of Chinatown ... laundry was started on the corner of Washington Dupont Streets in 1851. By 1870 some 2,000 Chinese laundries were in the trade growing to 7,500 in 1880. Merchants and ...
Understandably, when the news of gold and opportunity in far away Gum San, (Golden Mountain ... was given the name "Chinatown" by the press. The first Chinese hand laundry was started on the ...