Fwd: Italian-Americans in N. Cal.

[Bekah]

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From: Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
Date: January 15, 2009 12:38:33 PM PST
To: Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Subject: Italian-Americans in N. Cal.

As a fellow Pynchon-l subscriber and longtime Northern California  
resident, I can testify that there is a large Italian-American  
population, both rural (in agriculture, cheese, wine) and urban --  
San Francisco has its own "Little Italy" although it's not called  
that, in the heavily Italian-American North Beach neighborhood.  So  
it's probably not impossible to gain some knowledge of Italian- 
American musical taste for a Northern California teenager who is  
interested.  What is now  Silicon Valley used to be all prunes and  
other crops, more than a few Italian immigrants managed to acquire  
some property, back in the day, that turned out to be extremely  
valuable in that part of the world by the 1960s, 70s, 80s.

Back to lurking,
Doug
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