Victor’s Chop Suey-olde chinatown uptown

Victor’s Chop Suey was the restaurant’s name when my father took over circa 1955. the menu was americanized chinese food (chow mein, egg fu yong, chop suey, sweet & sour spareribs, etc.), and traditional american (meat loaf, hamburger steak, veal cutlet, frank & beans, b l T sammie’s, etc.)
the daily menu changed daily. the .99 special (ninty nine cents), was usually hot dog & beans, meat loaf, hamburger steak, and the like. the menu included soup & salad, tea or coffee, bread & dessert (home made pie, ice cream, or jello/​pudding) coffee was .10 these days.
the eatery operated 20 hours a day. most of the biz came after 2 a.m. when the nearby bars closed and the drunken sailors/​seamen piled in.
in my teens, i worked the graveyard shift on weekends, helping out the kitchen push out fried rice, sandwiches, egg foo yung, fried items, and washing dishes.
in the daytime, i was downstairs peeling onions, potatoes, carrots… certainly not a barrel of laughs.
eventually the business was sold.
sometime after that the restaurant itself was gone, wiping out the last hints of the original chinatown in oaktown. (1990’s?)