Meejosee Wong, Yut Sun Hoy, and Sandy Wong in Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Company

Meejosee Wong, Yut Sun Hoy, and Sandy Wong in Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Company

Yut Sun Hoy ran the Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Company after the death of his uncle Hoy Sam in 1926. In 1953, Yut Sun moved the store to 917 West Sprague Avenue, which is currently the block containing the Bing Crosby Theater and the Knitting Factory. Hoy Sam's daughter, Meejosee, moved to China at the age of 4 after the death of Hoy Sam. She and her daughter Sandy moved back to Spokane in the 1950s after fleeing China as the communist party came to power. This photograph shows all three in the shop on Sprague Avenue with medicine drawers in the background.

Unknown

Sandy (Wong) MacPherson

1957

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