Posted on 04/05/2021 9:19:20 AM PDT by mylife
In immigrant enclaves around the world, waves of new communities build upon the foundation left behind as the previous tenants move away. New cultures and businesses build on top of the old ones, stacking up like the layer cakes that Remo's in Seattle's Rainier Valley neighborhood once made more than one hundred of each day. Those cakes, bought for weddings, birthdays, and graduations for generations, came out of the area once known as the Garlic Gulch,
“We had several Italian grocery stores at Atlantic Street, Italian pharmacy, Italian barbershop. The residents were mainly east and west of Rainier Avenue, going all the way up to Beacon Hill, as far south as – oh, a little south of McClellan Street,” Remo Borracchini described in the book “Rainier Valley Food Stories.”
None of that remains, so when his three daughters announced the bakery’s permanent closing this week just days after another classic Garlic Gulch brand, Oberto, announced it would be shutting its factory in the neighborhood, it felt like the end of an era.
When the Italian community first arrived in Seattle in the first decade of the 20th century, they came for coal mining jobs. The area Borracchini describes appealed to the mainly rural immigrants because of the available space for farming. Then, as quickly as the neighborhood became known as Italian, they were joined by Japanese residents, then the Black community spread south from the Central District. In the late 1970s, refugees from the Vietnam War moved in, along with Latino immigrants and newly arrived people from East Africa. By the early 2000s, Borracchini’s and Oberto shared the streets with pho shops, taco trucks, teriyaki counters, and Ethiopian restaurants, reflecting similar populations as the neighborhood just to the south, which was then considered among the most diverse in the country.
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Maybe they moved to Colorado and will re-open as Galt’s Garlic Gulch.
Obertos just closed
“I imagine it was the covid”
Which doesn’t exist!
Livingston County, nr Geneseo.
BTW, I was born in Rochester also.
“What is the real reasons for the closings?”
There is an Italian section in St. Louis called ‘The Hill’. Lots of restaurants, delis, etc. The Hill is almost ferociously kept nice and actively resists encroachment by what the locals consider undesirable elements but the homes and lots, in keeping with their age are quite small. I frankly think it will eventually disappear, like we all will.
I didn’t see much in the article either. Even if it was, you have to wonder if what is stated in the press is the true reason. Maybe the best reason is just time and the Italians were absorbed and combined into the oppressive whites. The US used to be a melting pot. Don’t see that happening anymore by design.
Yes, and they do not deserve to life in a free country or to have good things in life! The know this, so they (sub)consciously destroy all the good things!
When I was young and short in wisdom, about 40 years ago now, I worked at the Rainier Valley welfare office. We often went to the dwindling Italian community for lunch. Even then it was clear the time left to that community was limited. I am surprised only they held out this long.
That area today must be a real hell-hole.
My experience as a welfare worker (I think I lasted about 3 years) made me a conservative. Learned about government idiocracy. Learned that welfare wasn’t for the needy, but for the greedy. And learned how the left had absolutely poisoned the black community with their Great Society programs.
I remember shopping at a very nice market near Berkeley. The man in line ahead of me was black, well dressed, wearing a very expensive gold watch. Bought expensive groceries too.
I was amazed when he paid with a wad of food stamps.
Say goodbye to pizza and good food, and hello to your new masters who are arriving and making babies.
I believe the Hartford south end (where Italians lived after urban renewal hit Front Street) is no longer Italian and I bet Boston North End (where Tony’s mom yelled out the window Anthony in the Prince spaghetti commercial) is not Italian either...
I liked the seafood
I dont know how obertos went down but they sell jerky everywhere there and fish, seafood.... but not Italian
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