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PCCLI0631v2: Left: advertisement The Zimmerman Mercantile Co. 3700 Navajo. Right side Navajo Theatre West 37th Ave. advertisements for Le Donne’s Groceries and Meat Mkt. At 2160 Pecos St. Program lists grocery stores prices for 1936
PCCLI0631v1: Front on left side “Don’t Get Personal”, “Song of the Saddle”, advertisement for Alcott Printing Co. Sam Rizzari, Mgr. 4132 W. 41st Ave. Right side is the back; advertisement for Lombardi & Co Groceries & Mean, 3562 Mariposa, and Se Cheverell Moore, Druggists
This photograph is a digital scan of an original photograph lent for copying during the Italians of Colorado project. The original photograph is not owned by History Colorado. The digital scan was donated with permissions (see permissions in Registrar's file) and accessioned into the History Colorado collection.
Project description:
In 2002, the Colorado Historical Society (now known as History Colorado) founded the Colorado Italian American Preservation Association (CIAPA). A volunteer organization, CIAPA’s mission is to work collaboratively with the Society and other organizations to develop, support and coordinate projects that preserve, promote and celebrate Italian American culture and heritage. Since 2002, CIAPA has carried out its mission by meeting with people from the Colorado Italian American community, recording their stories and creating an archive of research materials that includes oral histories, photographs, moving images, sound recordings and artifacts. To date, CIAPA has helped the Society acquire over 200 oral histories, 600 artifacts and nearly 6,000 photographs. Since 2002, CIAPA has developed over 4,000 research files, all of which document the history, culture and traditions of Italian American families in Colorado.
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See MSS.02595 Aldo Notarianni files for additional information and images.
The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 American black-and-white biographical film from Warner Bros., produced by Henry Blanke, directed by William Dieterle, that stars Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise and Donald Woods, and Paul Muni as the renowned scientist who developed major advances in microbiology, which revolutionized agriculture and medicine. The film's screenplay—which tells a highly fictionalized version of Pasteur’s life—was written by Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney, and Edward Chodorov (uncredited).--from Wikipedia
From the Book Italy in Colorado by Alisa DiGiacomo:
Gregorio “Gregory” Notarianni
Born in Falerna, Italy in 1895, Gregory Notarianni served in the Italian Cavalry. After contracting the flu in 1918, he returned home. Interested in travel and wanting to see the world, he immigrated to America in 1920 and settled in Denver. In 1922 he married Adele Libonati and worked for his brother-in-law, Frank Mancini, at the Mancini Press, writing for the Italian-language newspaper Il Risveglio. Gregory and Adele had one son, Aldo, born in 1925.
In 1923, Gregory started his own publication, America. A year later, he left the publishing business and acquired the Star Movie Theater. In 1926, he purchased the Navajo Theater in the heart of Little Italy. A popular place, the Navajo showed movies for ten cents for children and fifteen cents for adults. After purchasing tickets, patrons could buy candy from the Se Cheverell-Moore drugstore, which was connected to the theater by a door in the lobby.
Gregory sold the theater in 1938. Adele Notarianni died in 1968, followed by Gregory in 1983.