Posted on 02/24/2020 2:04:49 PM PST by EBH
Mob boss dies
he helped financed Deep throat for 22k, grossed 50 million
https://www.tmz.com/2020/02/24/columbo-mob-mobster-family-john-sonny-franzese-dead-dies-at-103/
Not Italic. Family came from places in N. Europe, the Baltic countries.
You might like this YouTube on Figs. It’ll take your mind off North Italia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-zul7g4cSA
Or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dPoS1CJShk
No link, but Interesting figs found in Bensonhurst neighborhood too!
Fig site.
Yes, good people.
Dad was stationed in Naples in the 1960’s. We loved the Neapolitans, so friendly and helpful, full of life.
Could not understand why Dad’s driver was contemptuous of them; in traffic he’d shake his fist and mutter “pazzi napolitani!!”. Then I learned the Italian Army assigned troops to regions other than their home area.
U.S. personnel who went TDY to Germany (a very pleasant drive) began to refer to northerners as `Italian-speaking Germans’; the efficiency of the German & the friendliness of the Italian combined. Even the place names were in German & Italian in the Sud Tirol.
Return to Napoli and it was “we’re back in the land of `domani, domani’”. But I can tell you that in 1970 the streets of Naples were safe at any hour of day or night.
Yes, I know Lega Nord wants autonomy. All we Yanks knew was that when the menu at AGIP or Gran Pavesi on the autostrada switched from tomato to gravy based, we were in northern Italy.
Please try to keep an open mind. Piano, signore, piano!
;^)
In 1944, Sicily petitioned the US to be the 49th state. We could have had another southern state!
Authorities still don’t know where the coronavirus originated in Italy
I am guessing at a Italian restaurant.
Lol.
I actually read about that. It’s where I would be living if they did that.
Lol
I remember when Italy won the World Cup in soccer in 1969. Naples streets were filled with people waving the flag and shouting “Forza Italia!!”
“Northern Italians always thought they were better than the rest of us southerners.”
True. Especially those blond, blue eyed Italians, which mixed with the Swiss.
6 of us gals have a trip planned in August. Rome, Venice, Florence. Really hoping we don’t have to cancel it.
“Well it’s terrible that people up there may die but it might bring them back to earth.”
You sir, are a wordsmith.
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