Category: Marchetti

Marchetti & Gracia Family Tree

The Marchetti & Togliatti families from Balangero, Northern Italy, immigrated to Utah at the end of silver boom in the early 20th Century before relocating to the Santa Clara Valley in California. The Italian vineyardists married into more Italian vineyardist families, Casella & Bossa, just in time for Prohibition. Safe to say the Tijuana business boomed and the entrepreneurial ambition...

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Ford Mustang Versus Shuttle Atlantis!

We had never experienced a rocket launch. It was the summer of 2011 and purely by coincidence we had flown from England to visit family in Florida in the same week STS-135 was scheduled to launch. This was the 135th and final mission for NASA’s Space Shuttle program. The NASA shuttle program had been the space program of my life....

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Marchetti & Togliatti V State of Utah

The Marchetti & Togliatti families emigrated from Balangero, Piedmont, Northern Italy, just 16 miles northwest of Turin. Emigration commenced at the turn of the 20th Century and within 13 years both families had emigrated to the USA. The families embarked from Italy, taking multiple paths, but all ultimately passed through the copper mining town of Bingham Canyon, Utah. Immigrants had...

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Obituary: Joan Shirley Marchetti né Gracia

Joan Shirley (Gracia) Marchetti Oct. 19, 1929 – Oct. 29, 2021. Born in San Francisco, CA to Joseph E. Gracia and Claire K. (Grant) Gracia. Joan was preceded in death by her husband of over sixty years, Henry J. Marchetti. She leaves behind two sons and their wives, Mark and Pamela Marchetti and Gary and Amy Marchetti, six grandchildren: Mary M. Watt...

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Prohibition, what prohibition?

To avoid prohibition, entrepreneur, and great grandfather, James S MARCHETTI (1900-1965) partnered with his brother-in-law, Victor R Delu, to establish Vick’s Place in Tijuana, a restaurant, bar, dance and music hall.

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