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Originally Posted by fflint
So...the suburbanization process of Bay Area Italian-Americans began no later than the 1920s, and included the time-worn tradition of moving across the Bay to Oakland and setting up an enclave before eventually decamping for the shiny new suburbs. The Temescal neighborhood was, according to Wikipedia, an Italian-American neighborhood until the late 1960s. Anecdotally, I first visited that part of Oakland in the early 1990s and even then it was not noticeably Italian any longer. |
Would that be "suburbanization" though? Oakland is a city in its own right and it wouldn't surprise me that it had a Little Italy district a century ago.