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The Founding of the Fior d’Italia

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

It was not uncommon among Italian immigrants of that era to desert the gold fields and resume a trade in San Francisco and its environs that they knew from the old country. Angelo Del Monte was one who made good with this fall-back strategy. Although he had left the gold camps in disgust, he learned…

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