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Item Title
"On the Avenue, there are six businessmen from the same town."
Author/Creator
Interviewer: Carroll, Thomas D.
Created/Published
August 11, 1994
Notes
Interview with Ralph Venezia, owner of Sanremo Italian Import Company.
Summary of audio segment: RV talks about taking items on consignment, has always done it. On the avenue there are 6 business people from Montescaglioso -- RV, Joe Miraglia the butcher, Rocco Ditaranto sells produce and cold cuts, Sario Petrozza in hardware store, Vito Petrozza at the variety store, Rocco the barber. Rocco the barber had a beautiful barber shop for 25 years in Italy, in the center of town, and he left to come here. And people talked about it. And he was successful here too, you should see the big house he has.
Subjects
Interviews
Italian Americans
Oral history
Sound recordings
Stores & shops
Neighborhood stores
Ethnography
Interviews
United States--New Jersey--Paterson
21st Avenue
Sanremo Italian Imports
Object Type
Related Names
Narrator: Venezia, Ralph
Medium
Digital Audio Tape
Language
English
Call Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A009; A: 01:41:55
Reproduction Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A009
Part of
Working in Paterson Folklife Project
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afcwip tca00913
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.tca00913