Description
Frances Chow Tuck was born in Chico, California and grew up in Pittsburgh, California. In this interview, she discusses her family’s immigration from China. She discusses growing up in small town Pittsburgh, where her family ran a Dollar Store throughout World War II. She recalls memories of Pearl Harbor and the Port Chicago Explosion, and its aftermath. She describes her family wearing buttons stating “I’m Chinese American" on their weekly trips across the Bay Bridge into San Francisco for supplies. Mrs. Tuck dissses rationing, movies, and radios were like during wartime. She recalls what it was like hearing about the end of the war and postwar Pittsburg.