Italian-Americans in N. Cal.

[Joseph Tracy]

A lot more Portuguese around Arcata/Eureka than Italians  but a  
couple good Italian restaurants.
On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Bekah wrote:

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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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