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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Norma Tealdi Interview |
| Author | Tealdi, Norma |
| Date | 19 Mar-25 Apr 2001 |
| Document Type | Personal Account; Photograph |
| Publisher Information | Telegraph Hill Dwellers |
| Reference | IHRC3412, Box 2 |
| Library / Archive | Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota |
| Collection Name | Telegraph Hill Dwellers Oral Histories Collection, 1979-1980 |
| Description | Since the 1920s Norma Teladi has, from her home on Montgomery Street, been an active participant in and keen observer of neighborhood life on the eastern slope of Telegraph Hill. For 46 years her father's grocery store was a source of polenta, live chickens, neighbourhood gossip and credit to the financially strapped. Norma provides varied glimpses into Italian-American life, from excursions to Marin via ferry and train for Scaveners' and Window Cleaners' picnics to the dancing of the tarantella on Sunday afternoons at Garibaldi Hall on Broadway. Norma describes what it was like to grow up in her tight-knit community during the 1920s and 1930s, including kids playing 'kick the can', or jumping on the grape trucks as they made deliveries to the Italian families who made wine at home. |
| 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 | Borgo Val di Taro, Italy |
| Ports | New York, San Francisco, California, United States |
| Keywords | imemigrant, immigration, holidays and celebrations, family, family records, biography, business, literature, social life, national identity, employment, shopping, commodities, livestock, food, community relations, loan, finance, clothing, dancing, leisure, children, transport, factory, metal, industry, manufacturing, health and sickness, journey conditions, railway, wine, currency, holidays and celebrations, education, housing, living conditions, banking, restaurant, culture, Catholicism, ceremony, Second World War, war, health and sickness, diphtheria, pneumonia, death, entertainment, rent, clothing |
| 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 |
