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Pasquale, 1920's or 30's

            My grandfather sometime in the 1920’s or 30’s. There have always been doubts about whether he came to the U.S. through Ellis Island or clandestinely in some way.
How and why I never asked him seems incredible to me now.
I do know that he borrowed money to come to the States and had to work as an indentured worker for a few years to pay off his debt.
He wanted to get into the movies. Remember that Rudolph Valentino was all the rage in these years. Pasquale named his two American-born daughters for Vilma Banky, a co-star of Valentino, and for Clara Bow, the “It” girl.
Around the time of this photo, he would have sent money back to Italy so that his wife and daughter, who had been left back in Sassinoro, could join him in New York.
   

Taken on: January 1, 1930

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Sets appears in: • Vintage Family: 1900-1980

Groups appears in: • PLANET EARTH BACK IN THE DAY • Personality! Express Yourself!

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