Due to a restrictive immigration policy, it was very difficult for Chinese men to bring their families to the United States. 'So what developed in Chinese-American communities all across the country was what was known as the bachelor society,’ Glick told DailyMail.com. Glick said that project founders Jack Tchen and Charlie Lai felt it was important to ‘get the stories of these older men before they were gone.’ Above, three men share a meal at what was known as a bachelor apartment on Bayard Street. Glick took the image in 1982