Ybor City Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Gary R. Mormino
Publication Date
2-1-2010
Date
1978-04-20
Abstract
This is an oral history interview with Mary Italiano, a native of Ybor City born in 1903. Her grandfather, an immigrant from Sicily, had a grocery store and fruit stand on the corner of Seventh Street and Seventeenth Avenue. Italiano worked in the family business as a child, left school after fifth grade, and married when she was fifteen, to a man she met at an Italian Club picnic. Her husband had a wholesale grocery business in West Tampa, where they lived after they were married. In this interview, Italiano discusses her life in Ybor City and West Tampa as part of a large Italian American family and overall Latin community.
Keywords
Italian Americans, Social life and customs, L'Unione Italiana, Italian Club, Mutual aid societies, Societies, Clubs, Grocery trade
Extent
00:39:57; 25 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.); Ybor City (Tampa, Fla.); West Tampa (Fla.)
Language
English
Digital Date
2010
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
Y10-00020
Recommended Citation
Italiano, Mary, "Mary Italiano Oral History Interview" (2010). Ybor City Oral History Project. 17.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ybor_ohp/17
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