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	'''Joe Jachetta in front of his salon in late 1999.'''		'''Joe Jachetta in front of his salon in late 1999.'''
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	''North Beach hair stylist Joe Jachetta, interviewed by Audrey Tomaselli of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers oral history project, talks about how folks in his building kept things cold before refrigerators.''		''North Beach hair stylist Joe Jachetta, interviewed by Audrey Tomaselli of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers oral history project, talks about how folks in his building kept things cold before refrigerators.''

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	In 1948, after having worked as a hairdresser at the Emporium for a couple of years, Joe borrowed $5,000 from his uncle and opened the Parkview Salon in the Palace Theater building on Powell Street across from Washington Square. "My mother was a fixture at St. Francis Church, so many of my first customers were from the Catholic Ladies' Aid. A friend became my partner and we paid off the debt in six months. We were partners for 34 years." In 1958 Joe moved the business to the southwest corner of Union and Powell where it remained for another 30 years. Ten years ago the salon moved again to its present location on Union between Stockton and Columbus. "Some of my customers have been coming to me for 50 years. And I haven't burned out because I enjoy center stage. I enjoy what I do!"		In 1948, after having worked as a hairdresser at the Emporium for a couple of years, Joe borrowed $5,000 from his uncle and opened the Parkview Salon in the Palace Theater building on Powell Street across from Washington Square. "My mother was a fixture at St. Francis Church, so many of my first customers were from the Catholic Ladies' Aid. A friend became my partner and we paid off the debt in six months. We were partners for 34 years." In 1958 Joe moved the business to the southwest corner of Union and Powell where it remained for another 30 years. Ten years ago the salon moved again to its present location on Union between Stockton and Columbus. "Some of my customers have been coming to me for 50 years. And I haven't burned out because I enjoy center stage. I enjoy what I do!"

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	'''Joe at his Parkview Salon, November 1999.'''		'''Joe at his Parkview Salon, November 1999.'''

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	'''Joe Jachetta in front of his salon in late 1999.'''		'''Joe Jachetta in front of his salon in late 1999.'''

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			''North Beach hair stylist Joe Jachetta, interviewed by Audrey Tomaselli of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers oral history project, talks about how folks in his building kept things cold before refrigerators.''


	Joe Jachetta was born 75 years ago at 334 Vallejo Street on the eastern slope of Telegraph Hill. His personal history is entwined with that of our neighborhood's. Joe's maternal grandfather, Giacomino Gallo, came to this country in 1886 and worked as a waiter at Fior d'Italia's original location on Broadway at Kearny. In fact, Joe's mother, Amelia Gallo, was born in the room above the restaurant. After learning the business, Giacomino (in partnership with his sister and her husband) opened a restaurant and boarding house a few blocks away on Front Street. Joe said, "I remember my mother describing a free lunch. Imagine going into this bar and all the cold cuts were free! A 1906 earthquake story was told more than once in our family: The earthquake hit when everyone was asleep. My mother, age 6, was in a room where a big chifforobe had fallen in front of the door. One of the tenants in the boarding house was a big, burly man who worked on a barge, and this man pushed the door open and carried my mother down the stairs (which were all crooked). He herded her and her family down to the waterfront and they all got on this barge which went out and anchored in the middle of the Bay and they watched the City burn."		Joe Jachetta was born 75 years ago at 334 Vallejo Street on the eastern slope of Telegraph Hill. His personal history is entwined with that of our neighborhood's. Joe's maternal grandfather, Giacomino Gallo, came to this country in 1886 and worked as a waiter at Fior d'Italia's original location on Broadway at Kearny. In fact, Joe's mother, Amelia Gallo, was born in the room above the restaurant. After learning the business, Giacomino (in partnership with his sister and her husband) opened a restaurant and boarding house a few blocks away on Front Street. Joe said, "I remember my mother describing a free lunch. Imagine going into this bar and all the cold cuts were free! A 1906 earthquake story was told more than once in our family: The earthquake hit when everyone was asleep. My mother, age 6, was in a room where a big chifforobe had fallen in front of the door. One of the tenants in the boarding house was a big, burly man who worked on a barge, and this man pushed the door open and carried my mother down the stairs (which were all crooked). He herded her and her family down to the waterfront and they all got on this barge which went out and anchored in the middle of the Bay and they watched the City burn."

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	In 1948, after having worked as a hairdresser at the Emporium for a couple of years, Joe borrowed $5,000 from his uncle and opened the Parkview Salon in the Palace Theater building on Powell Street across from Washington Square. "My mother was a fixture at St. Francis Church, so many of my first customers were from the Catholic Ladies' Aid. A friend became my partner and we paid off the debt in six months. We were partners for 34 years." In 1958 Joe moved the business to the southwest corner of Union and Powell where it remained for another 30 years. Ten years ago the salon moved again to its present location on Union between Stockton and Columbus. "Some of my customers have been coming to me for 50 years. And I haven't burned out because I enjoy center stage. I enjoy what I do!"		In 1948, after having worked as a hairdresser at the Emporium for a couple of years, Joe borrowed $5,000 from his uncle and opened the Parkview Salon in the Palace Theater building on Powell Street across from Washington Square. "My mother was a fixture at St. Francis Church, so many of my first customers were from the Catholic Ladies' Aid. A friend became my partner and we paid off the debt in six months. We were partners for 34 years." In 1958 Joe moved the business to the southwest corner of Union and Powell where it remained for another 30 years. Ten years ago the salon moved again to its present location on Union between Stockton and Columbus. "Some of my customers have been coming to me for 50 years. And I haven't burned out because I enjoy center stage. I enjoy what I do!"

	Lucy and Joe have six children and twelve grandchildren. To his great delight all of them gathered at his home last summer to celebrate Fathers' Day. At the end of the interview, Joe surveyed his lovely home and garden and said, "It's hard to believe all this came from one little beauty shop on Washington Square."

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			Lucy and Joe have six children and twelve grandchildren. To his great delight all of them gathered at his home last summer to celebrate Fathers' Day. At the end of the interview, Joe surveyed his lovely home and garden and said, "It's hard to believe all this came from one little beauty shop on Washington Square."

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	Lucy and Joe have six children and twelve grandchildren. To his great delight all of them gathered at his home last summer to celebrate Fathers' Day. At the end of the interview, Joe surveyed his lovely home and garden and said, "It's hard to believe all this came from one little beauty shop on Washington Square."		Lucy and Joe have six children and twelve grandchildren. To his great delight all of them gathered at his home last summer to celebrate Fathers' Day. At the end of the interview, Joe surveyed his lovely home and garden and said, "It's hard to believe all this came from one little beauty shop on Washington Square."

	~~''--by Audrey Tomaselli ''~~

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			''by Audrey Tomaselli''

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			'''Joe Jachetta's Mother, Amelia Gallo, during World War II'''

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	Joe Jachetta was born 75 years ago at 334 Vallejo Street on the eastern slope of Telegraph Hill. His personal history is entwined with that of our neighborhood's. Joe's maternal grandfather, Giacomino Gallo, came to this country in 1886 and worked as a waiter at Fior d'Italia's original location on Broadway at Kearny. In fact, Joe's mother, Amelia Gallo, was born in the room above the restaurant. After learning the business, Giacomino (in partnership with his sister and her husband) opened a restaurant and boarding house a few blocks away on Front Street. Joe said, "I remember my mother describing a free lunch. Imagine going into this bar and all the cold cuts were free! A 1906 earthquake story was told more than once in our family: The earthquake hit when everyone was asleep. My mother, age 6, was in a room where a big chifforobe had fallen in front of the door. One of the tenants in the boarding house was a big, burly man who worked on a barge, and this man pushed the door open and carried my mother down the stairs (which were all crooked). He herded her and her family down to the waterfront and they all got on this barge which went out and anchored in the middle of the Bay and they watched the City burn."		Joe Jachetta was born 75 years ago at 334 Vallejo Street on the eastern slope of Telegraph Hill. His personal history is entwined with that of our neighborhood's. Joe's maternal grandfather, Giacomino Gallo, came to this country in 1886 and worked as a waiter at Fior d'Italia's original location on Broadway at Kearny. In fact, Joe's mother, Amelia Gallo, was born in the room above the restaurant. After learning the business, Giacomino (in partnership with his sister and her husband) opened a restaurant and boarding house a few blocks away on Front Street. Joe said, "I remember my mother describing a free lunch. Imagine going into this bar and all the cold cuts were free! A 1906 earthquake story was told more than once in our family: The earthquake hit when everyone was asleep. My mother, age 6, was in a room where a big chifforobe had fallen in front of the door. One of the tenants in the boarding house was a big, burly man who worked on a barge, and this man pushed the door open and carried my mother down the stairs (which were all crooked). He herded her and her family down to the waterfront and they all got on this barge which went out and anchored in the middle of the Bay and they watched the City burn."

			[[Image:italian1$joe-jachetta$gallo_itm$jachetta_s-grandfather.jpg]]

			'''Joe Jachetta's grandfather, Giocomino Gallo, posing in North Beach, 1890s.'''

	Joe was only 7 years old when his grandfather, Giacomino, died; but he has a few fond memories of him. He remembers Nonno sitting at the head of the table, reaching down to the wine jug on the floor beside him and hoisting it over his shoulder to refill the glasses. Each year, even during the Depression, his family made 200 gallons of wine. "I remember in our basement there was never less than a thousand bottles of wine---aging just right. I can smell the wine being made with these gigantic presses. They just went round and round and strained it until they got every drop. For fun, we used to take turns stomping the grapes. The container was pretty big; you needed a ladder to get into it. The truck would stop in front of the house with these lugs of grapes. The driver would put one box on the pavement, so the kids could come around and help themselves. Otherwise we'd be running back and forth stealing grapes from the truck. When a truckload of grapes came into the neighborhood, there would be something like a telegraph system. Someone would yell 'fugi'. It was amazing! It would go from one to the other, around the block and up the hill and before you knew it all the kids in the neighborhood were there. That's what the box on the ground was for." There were six flats at 334 Vallejo and all the families in the building shared the equipment and helped each other with the wine making.		Joe was only 7 years old when his grandfather, Giacomino, died; but he has a few fond memories of him. He remembers Nonno sitting at the head of the table, reaching down to the wine jug on the floor beside him and hoisting it over his shoulder to refill the glasses. Each year, even during the Depression, his family made 200 gallons of wine. "I remember in our basement there was never less than a thousand bottles of wine---aging just right. I can smell the wine being made with these gigantic presses. They just went round and round and strained it until they got every drop. For fun, we used to take turns stomping the grapes. The container was pretty big; you needed a ladder to get into it. The truck would stop in front of the house with these lugs of grapes. The driver would put one box on the pavement, so the kids could come around and help themselves. Otherwise we'd be running back and forth stealing grapes from the truck. When a truckload of grapes came into the neighborhood, there would be something like a telegraph system. Someone would yell 'fugi'. It was amazing! It would go from one to the other, around the block and up the hill and before you knew it all the kids in the neighborhood were there. That's what the box on the ground was for." There were six flats at 334 Vallejo and all the families in the building shared the equipment and helped each other with the wine making.

	Joe recalled the easy way neighbors related to one another. "It was a working class building and quite often people would come down the back stairs and instead of going down into the basement to get out to the front of the house, they would just walk through my mother's flat. I remember in the evening sitting there having dinner and people walking through to get out to the front of the house. Nobody cared. It was just, 'Hi, how are you? I'm going out on a date.' We were on the first floor and it was easier to just walk through Amelia's house. We had the only telephone in the building. Everybody would use that phone. All six flats. We would be having dinner and there would be somebody phoning for a doctor. Our family also had a radio; people next door or two houses away came over to listen to the radio. After dinner, I would jump the fence from my backyard into the next backyard, run up the stairs, and there would be the Dinelli family. And I would walk right into their kitchen, then go into another room and wait till they finished having dinner and then they'd come in and we'd play Monopoly. Talk about the good old days; that was a wonderful feeling."		Joe recalled the easy way neighbors related to one another. "It was a working class building and quite often people would come down the back stairs and instead of going down into the basement to get out to the front of the house, they would just walk through my mother's flat. I remember in the evening sitting there having dinner and people walking through to get out to the front of the house. Nobody cared. It was just, 'Hi, how are you? I'm going out on a date.' We were on the first floor and it was easier to just walk through Amelia's house. We had the only telephone in the building. Everybody would use that phone. All six flats. We would be having dinner and there would be somebody phoning for a doctor. Our family also had a radio; people next door or two houses away came over to listen to the radio. After dinner, I would jump the fence from my backyard into the next backyard, run up the stairs, and there would be the Dinelli family. And I would walk right into their kitchen, then go into another room and wait till they finished having dinner and then they'd come in and we'd play Monopoly. Talk about the good old days; that was a wonderful feeling."

			[[Image:Italian1$joe-jachetta$restaurant itm$front-street-saloon-outside.jpg]]

			'''Jachetta family restaurant/boarding house exterior view.'''

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			'''The family restaurant and boarding house on Front Street.'''

	Prescott Alley across the street from his house provided Joe with a short cut right to the back door of the (then) Washington Irving grade school on Broadway between Sansome and Montgomery. Joe went on to attend Francisco Middle School and Galileo High School. He and his friends often stopped at Athens Ice Cream Parlor (which was located on Columbus between Union and Green) on the way home. Joe describes it as "having booths and a marble-topped counter and sodas--lemon coke, chocolate coke, cherry coke. They had fabulous sundaes; one was called the Golden Gate Bridge which had nine scoops of ice cream and chocolate syrup and whipped cream. It was the most expensive thing you could buy; I think it was 30 cents."		Prescott Alley across the street from his house provided Joe with a short cut right to the back door of the (then) Washington Irving grade school on Broadway between Sansome and Montgomery. Joe went on to attend Francisco Middle School and Galileo High School. He and his friends often stopped at Athens Ice Cream Parlor (which was located on Columbus between Union and Green) on the way home. Joe describes it as "having booths and a marble-topped counter and sodas--lemon coke, chocolate coke, cherry coke. They had fabulous sundaes; one was called the Golden Gate Bridge which had nine scoops of ice cream and chocolate syrup and whipped cream. It was the most expensive thing you could buy; I think it was 30 cents."
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