Politics and Chinese Laundries!

Here’s a little light-hearted  Trivia Quiz about how Chinese laundries were connected with American politics! 1. What American presidential candidate voted (presumably for himself) at a polling place in a Chinese laundry? 2. Where did the Republicans nominate a Chinese laundryman in 1900 for City Council (where they felt he could win against two competing

Early Charlotte Chinese Laundries

A Charlotte Chinese Laundry Before 1900 As in many other cities and towns in the Deep South, Chinese laundries existed well before 1900. Loo Sam, age 40, and a partner, Loo Show, age 36, probably a relative, operated one of the earliest Chinese laundries in Charlotte at 219 N. Tryon St.  In an 1891 newspaper