Fifi, in the dark dress in the center, with her elementary school classmates, including, on the far left, her best friend, Rose Cugioni (who was four years younger). They are possibly standing in front of the old wood frame Sherman Elementary School, that was replaced in the late 1920s.
Fifi and Keeno often took the streetcar with their parents to visit their cousins, Ismene and Laura Galli's children Irene, Stanley and Lorraine. They lived near their grocery store, the Gilt Edge which was next door to the theater that was then called the Elite and, since 1939, has been the Vogue Theater.
The building where the Gilt Edge Grocery store once was located. Lorraine's daughter, Christine Rodrigues, remembers her mother telling her that the family kept chickens and the grocery's delivery horse and wagon behind the store.
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| Angelo and Ida in the mid-1920s |
With Keeno, aged about 16
Fifi, on the right with her best friend, Rose Cugioni in the center and an unidentified friend on the left, taken the same day as the picture above with Keeno.
They're wearing their home-made fancy-dress costumes which they fashioned out of crepe paper--a fad that began during World War I paper shortages and continued through the Great Depression.
Fifi, left with Rose in matching crepe paper dresses and parasols. The two friends lived around the corner from each other in the Italian-American Cow Hollow neighborhood.
Here's a particularly lovely photo of Rose!
Rosie the Prima Ballerina, possibly a recital of her dance class doing the March of the Toy Soldiers circa 1928
Close up of Rosie!
Angelo's granddaughter, Claire, wearing a costume of a traditional Italian peasant made by Ida for Fifi
Keeno in the Russian River area sometime in the mid-1920s
Fifi at the Russian River
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Fifi and a friend, circa 1930
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