- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/10 09:41 AM
An Immigrant's Dream 9
Here's a throwback photo of my parents shortly after they wed. As a couple, they planned to have children and move to America with the more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/07 01:50 PM
An Immigrant's Dream 2
My father taking a customer transaction during his first year of opening Tops Market in East Los Angeles. We were the only Asian family in more
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Out of The Past
There's this cool little store in Austin, Tx that's completely fills with vintage paraphernalia. I was thrilled to find retro toys, like the more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 12/22 10:33 AM
StoryBoard: An Immigrant's Dream
My father's dream of living, working and raising a family in America came true in 1978.
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/10 09:27 AM
An Immigrant's Dream 7
Family's first car. It was a used car but it was my dad's car. He loved his America speedster although it never did go very fast. It more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 12/02 11:31 AM
An Immigrant's Dream 20
My father pictured on top of the human pyramid. This was taken during physical education period at his high school in Taichung, Taiwan. more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/13 02:42 PM
An Immigrant's Dream 13
Quickly adapting to Western culture... my parents made sure that Christmas trees, personalized Santa stockings, presents, eggnog and milk more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/07 02:34 PM
An Immigrant's Dream 3
Cutting my birthday cake after we closed our family market at the norm of 10 pm every night in East Los Angeles. Making the best of what more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/07 07:28 PM
An Immigrant's Dream 4
My parent's having their traditional Chinese wedding reception in Taiwan a few years prior to immigrating to America. The year was 1974, more
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- LouisianaGurl69
- oklahoma
- 02/07 07:50 PM
very unusual rainbow colored ring
this is very very pretty and different!
- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/11 02:00 PM
An Immigrant's Dream 11
My father's first memory of me. He was in America working and I was born in Taiwan. This picture of my grandparents holding me was mailed more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 10/31 01:43 PM
An Immigrant's Dream
My Father's Market in East L.A. (Top's Market). He ran it from 1978 until 1991. It was his first business when he came to America as and more
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- TREZ
- the sidewalks e...
- 10/30 04:29 AM
Batten down the hatches!
& it's a good thing we did, forecast was dead on w/heavy wet snow... woke up to about 8-10" & it's still snowing... too this coming back more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/11 01:55 PM
An Immigrant's Dream 10
A rare family photo taken outside the family market. This photo was taken outside on the lawn of our apartment prior to opening the market more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/14 09:40 AM
An Immigrant's Dream 14
My father was cowboy at heart. I could tell he idolized John Wayne and Charles Bronson. After he closed the market night, he would often more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/08 02:05 PM
An Immigrant's Dream 6
This picture was taken the day my father was scheduled to fly to America by himself in search of their American dream. My mother was very more
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/16 12:07 AM
An Immigrant's Dream 15
Enter the text forOur first visit to the happiest place on earth and where dreams come true! My grandparents would come work the family more
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- WatchThis
- Ellison Bay, Wi...
- 02/07 08:18 PM
Milwaukee Dinosaur
Slated for demolition..can you see the colorful doors to the left?
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- JeffChi
- Santa Monica
- 11/16 03:01 PM
An Immigrant's Dream 18
Hello World! I was 6 or 7 months old here. We were already preparing for our exciting new beginning in a new country. My mother was more
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