![]() ![]() Her peep shows became successful, and she was known to charge an ounce of gold (sixteen dollars) for a "lookee". Before 1851 there were only seven Chinese women known to be in the city, and noticing the looks she drew from the men in her new town, she deduced they would pay for a more intimate setting. Ah Toy became the mistress of the ship's captain, who gave her so much gold that by the time she arrived in San Francisco, Ah Toy had a good amount of money. When Ah Toy left China for the United States, she originally traveled with her husband, who died during the travel. ![]() Arriving from Hong Kong in 1848, she became the best-known Asian woman in the American frontier. Ah Toy ( Chinese: 亞彩 Sidney Lau: Aa 3 Coi 2 – 1 February 1928) was a Chinese American prostitute and madam in San Francisco, California during the California Gold Rush, and the first Chinese prostitute in San Francisco. ![]()
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