Informant38

A large portion of Chinese pioneers established residence along the California Coast and began the business of gathering, drying, and exporting seafood resources back to China. In the 1870's California's largest export was dried seafood bound for Hong Kong. Other Chinese pioneers began vegetable gardens and became the main purveyors of fresh vegetables in the county. There were stores, laundries, restaurants, and labor-contracting businesses owned and operated by the new pioneers. In addition to the single men, families such as the Wong, Chong, and Ginn families settled SLO.
{this is not to mention the 'City of The Pharoah', erected, filmed, and interred by Cecil B. DeMille out on the Nipomo/Guadalupe dunes. archeology and fantastic history-'The Ten Commandments' project...}