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Well, it said the law said that all new laundries had to be constructed out of brick or stone, but existing laundries, which were made out of wood, which they all were, practically all were, could only continue to operate if they got a permit from the city. And this is what led to this charade, really, where they approved all the permit applications that white people made, say for one, and they denied all the chinese. So in a way this is not really about fire safety. It was one of quite a number of municipal ordinances that were passed to harass the chinese. If we make life so miserable for them, if we make it impossible for them to earn a living, maybe they will leave. So enter lee wiyick, who is e of the proprietors, he had been running it for 20 years. His name was not yick wo, his name was lee yick. That was the name of the laundromat. When the original case was filed, no one bothered to fix it that they didnt get the guys name right, which showed you how much they cared about United States , Al Iskandariyah , Rock Springs , San Francisco , New York , South Korea , Puerto Rico , Angel Island , North Korea , North Korean , South Korean , Plessy V Ferguson , Juan Kim , Fong Yu , John Marshall Harlan , Samuel Freeman Miller , Judy Choo , William Woods , Matt Smith , Juan Kim Ark , Chay Chan , Joseph Bradley , Mae Ngai , Anthony Kennedy , Ngai John , V Hopkins Facebook ,