I had no idea there were 70,000 Armenians in the country, no less one district.
The first I heard of Armenians being here was when Vick Mackey and his strike team were gonna rob the Armenin mob’s money train.
At first i laughed and then i looked it up and there IS an Armenian mob.
They first formed for the same reason many do, to protect themselves from other groups, this time the blacks and hispanics.
But they became just as ruthless and brutal after a while.
OK i’m done :)
California has had an Armenian population in the San Joaquin Valley for a long, long time. They were fruit growers, and fled here before the Turks could cut their heads off...
Read William Saroyan, a wonderful but now forgotten writer, who focused on tales of his Armenian American community. I still remember The Human Comedy, about a boy who delivers telegrams...and the terrible delivery of a telegram from the front in WWII to the family of a fallen soldier.