{"id":494,"date":"2012-05-27T18:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T18:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2012-05-27T18:09:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T18:09:41","slug":"sicilians-in-racine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/features\/sicilians-in-racine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sicilians in Racine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people think of Racine history and groups of people who came over from the &#8220;old country&#8221;, they usually think of Danes, Germans, Poles, etc. However, during the first half of the 20th century, there was a thriving community of Sicilians who lived and worked in Racine &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A grandson of a former Racine resident wrote: &#8220;\u2026My grandfather and his brothers and sisters emigrated from Sicily to Racine in 1904-1913. My father and all of his family and cousins were born in Racine, WI. In 1947 my grandfather moved his family out to CA, where I was born. The closest I&#8217;ve been to Racine is O&#8217;Hare airport in Chicago. My dad lived on LaFayette Ave. (today&#8217;s N. Memorial Drive).&#8221; (<a href=\"mailto:carecupero@hotmail.com\">carecupero@hotmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<table width=\"41%\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Recupero_Racine_Lafayette_St_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-497\" title=\"Recupero_Racine_Lafayette_St_01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Recupero_Racine_Lafayette_St_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Recupero_Racine_Lafayette_St_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-498\" title=\"Recupero_Racine_Lafayette_St_02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Recupero_Racine_Lafayette_St_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Here is a pic of my dad in the snow in their front yard. This 2nd pic is of he and his brother. In the background there is a smoke stack, water tower, and the roof of a train station. Both of these pics are from the early 1940&#8217;s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"75%\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">This next picture is something that amazed me when I first saw it. It&#8217;s not very good quality, but near the center of the pic is my great grandmother. I had no idea that she ever came over from Sicily.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Recupero_Racine_Winslow_Street_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-499\" title=\"Recupero_Racine_Winslow_Street_01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Recupero_Racine_Winslow_Street_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Recupero_Racine_Winslow_Street_01.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Recupero_Racine_Winslow_Street_01-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Picture taken on Winslow Street, Racine, Wisconsin, circa 1920)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people think of Racine history and groups of people who came over from the &#8220;old country&#8221;, they usually think of Danes, Germans, Poles, etc. However, during the first half of the 20th century, there was a thriving community of Sicilians who lived and worked in Racine &#8230; A grandson of a former Racine resident&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions\/502"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}