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Title Lena Massucco Interview
Author Massucco, Lena
Date 8 Mar 2008
Document Type Personal Account; Photograph
Publisher Information Telegraph Hill Dwellers
Reference IHRC3412, Box 1
Library / Archive Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota
Collection Name Telegraph Hill Dwellers Oral Histories Collection, 1979-1980
Description Lena Massucco was one of the children of the Spediacci family who helped run Speedy's market at the southwest corner of Union and Montgomery Streets in San Francisco on Telegraph Hill. Her parents bought the store building in 1915 and her mother, Emma Frediani, started the store in 1923. they made sausages, homemade ravioli and "grav", kept live chickens and rabbits on the roof and made wine in the basement.
Series Description The interviews are part of a project undertaken by the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Program, University of California, Berkeley in 1993-1996 to document the experiences of Italian Americans from San Francisco's North Beach District. The interviews were transcribed and edited by volunteers from the Telegraph Hill Dwellers' Oral History Project.
Biographical Note / History Telegraph Hill Dwellers is a non-profit organization founded in 1954 to "perpetuate the historic traditions of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill and to represent the community interests of its residents and property owners".
Theme(s) Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations; Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community Relations
Country (from) Italy
Country (to) United States of America
Places Genova, Italy; Canada
Ports San Francisco, California, United States
Nationality Italian; Italian-America; European; Chinese; Asian
People Viti, Lori; Alison, Claudette; Overmire, Rozell; Overmire, Peter
Keywords livestock, commerce, trade, imemigrant, immigration, holidays and celebrations, family, family records, biography, business, children, townscape, women, marriage, languages, food, wine, transport, restaurant, prohibition, alcohol, church, education, language classes, health and sickness, dancing, social life, clubs, national identity, travel, living conditions, rent, housing, cookery, factory, commodities, railroad, literature, publishing, leisure, clothing, occupation, employment, hunting, ferry
Additional Information Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from the Immigration History Research Center Archives catalogue.
Catalogue Link Immigration History Research Center Archives Catalogue
Language English
Copyright Reproduced by kind permission of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers, San Francisco, California