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The Bozzani brothers, pictured above, began with a modest bicycle repair shop next door to the Italian Hall and then founded one of the earliest automobile dealerships in Los Angeles in 1911. As a highway commissioner, brother Amerigo later oversaw the construction of the state’s first freeway. The company remains family-owned today.
The Gianduia Market, an Italian grocery store once located at the present site of L.A. City Hall.
Italian American upward mobility was closely linked to education. The 1932 USC track team included Albert Vignolo, second row, fifth from right, nephew of pioneer Ambrosio Vignolo.
Italian Americans were one of the largest and most decorated groups in the U.S. military during WWII. The above letter, sent to Angelo Lo Cascio of Los Angeles, was returned to his family after he perished in combat.
The oldest known issue of L’Italo Americano newspaper, which has been published continuously
in Los Angeles since 1908.
Picnic of the Contessa Entellina Society, whose members hailed from a small town in Sicily
bearing the same name.
An 1879 receipt from Sanguinetti and Vignolo’s La Esperanza Store, which was located in downtown Los Angeles. Notice the price of onions!
Ceremonial ribbon from the Garibaldina Mutual Benefit Society.
Song book belonging to Leo Ricci, who played in the U.S. Army’s band during WWI.
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