Italian Oakland by Rick Malaspina

Author:Rick Malaspina [Malaspina, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-10-13T23:00:00+00:00

HEART OF TEMESCAL, 1947. Telegraph Avenue at Forty-eighth Street was the center of Oakland’s Italian American neighborhood. Residents represented different parts of Italy but predominantly the regions of Piedmont and Liguria. Most shops and other businesses were either owned or staffed by Italian Americans. Streetcars used overhead wires and double tracks, but this rail service ended in 1948. (Courtesy of Ray Raineri.)

END OF THE LINE, 1948. Streetcar service in the Temescal district ended in 1948, signaling the start of changes that would transform the old neighborhood and alter its Italian character. One thing that remains to this day is the Genova Delicatessen (left), although it has moved to larger and more modern quarters on the same block of Telegraph Avenue. (John Harder collection; courtesy of Ray Raineri.)

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