Lorri Ungaretti will give a visual presentation of the Crystal Palace Market, a cavernous, 70,000-square-foot farmers market that operated at 8th Street between Market and Mission Streets from 1922 to 1959. A touch of earlier San Francisco.
Rex Allen is a San Francisco native and Big Band leader who took over the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. will share that thrilling and grueling life on the road with us, and much more on the history of Big Bands and his mission.
A fascinating case study of “The Boy Who Started Fire with his Eyes,” the Italian teenager who caught the attention of the world when it was reported that a comic book he was reading suddenly burst into flames.
Before the turn of this century, 95% of our universe was quite literally missing and we did not even know it was missing. In the development of this new information, both Italians and Californians have enjoyed critical roles, and our speaker Bill Norman will discuss what they consider to be breakthrough insights as well as the teaching points they seem to offer for bettering our experience of living on this earth.
Traditional retail is the basic “bricks and mortar” form of business. Non-traditional or “modern” retail includes online retailing, direct marketing, automatic vending and many more variations. Our guest speaker, Robert Heggie, will discuss various aspects of non-traditional retailing (NTR).
Honorary Cenacolista Kip Cranna and longtime San Francisco Opera staff member, will be joined by Bianca Friundi, curator of the Museo Italo Americano, for an audio-visual preview of the Museo's current exhibit entitled: "Bravo: Celebrating San Francisco Opera—Its Italian Roots and Legacy." They have both spoken to us several times and always bring us the […]
At its height Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often-bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which was that of the Medici.
Lorri Ungaretti leads us on a visual journey of the many places and items that were once found in San Francisco but are now gone. San Francisco is well-known for its beautiful vistas and fascinating destinations. However, many places that were once part of the San Francisco experience have vanished from the land—lost to earthquakes, […]
The wines of Central Italy is the subject of our Fifth-Thursday wine tasting!
Lisa Sciandra set out on a journey to learn more about her Italian roots. Retrace her steps, beginning with the clues in her grandmother’s home, to finding her cousins through social media, and finally, to their joyful reunion in Italy this spring.
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