PERSONAL HISTORIES > Clifton Fong
Dr. Clifton & Marian Fong (2004)
DR. CLIFTON FONG
Dr. Clifton Fong is the first son of the legendary woman barber, Lon
Yoke Wong Fong, more popularly known as Fong Get Moo. She was the first
female barber in Oakland’s Chinatown and gained her fame from giving
out candy to her customers after she cut their hair. Clifton was born
in Chinatown in 1917 and he later became a dentist. He has spent many
years researching his mother’s life, which began in 1894 in a Chinese
mining camp in far northern California near the Oregon border, a rarity
for an ethnic Chinese woman in the late 19th century. Clifton and his
wife Marian still live in Oakland. (An edited transcript of an oral
interview of Dr. Clifton Fong is being developed.)
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