Italian-Americans in N. Cal.

[Joe Allonby]

Thanks, Doug.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> 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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