Besch (and Delaware and Magnolia and Barclay) all were dead ends with significant hills past the end of the street that went to a dirt road that was later developed as what is now Hackett Blvd. Kathy Keleher and siblings lived on Stanwix.

I live on Cardinal on the first block in from NS.

As you may know, we were on Stanwix Street, but after my older sibs including BJ moved out, my parents (with me) moved to Hackett and Cardinal. (I also lived later on Myrtle somewhere for a while.

I remember Kelton Ct, nera the RR tracks. Someobody I knew lived neare it, maybe on Mariette?

yes – see comment about my being a classmate of Betty Jo . (Besch Ave, Myrtle Ave(near Hackett) and Kelton Court off Whitehall road.

I was wondering if anyone was going to notice that!

You must have lived in the Delaware Ave neighborhood.

My sister (HS class of 1971) lives in Annapolis and Italian sausage – real sausage – is not available in supermarkets there.

I went to St James ’62 and AHN ’66 which put me in Betty Jo’s class and a year behind your brother. Interesting blog.

Insane.

Go to youtube and put this into the search field:

” Neapolitan Ragù (Rich Meat Sauce): the original recipe by Antonio Sorrentino “

Sodini’s?

I can’t really think of many on Phoenix, either. Not homey, the founder came from Napoli or Siena and the whole family smells like oregano type of italian restaurants, either.

In San Francisco, I frequetned a red velvet walled stereotyical italian restaurant near 20th and mission. Caricatures on the walls of italian singers like Sinatra and Dean Martin. Rumors were that the Mafia owned it, as well as the president of the car dealership I worked for.

I’d tell the name, but I can’t remember, and they’d probably also kill me.

Bucca is a chain, so I’m not sure that counts. The Capital of Minnesota has one Italian resturant that is not a chain? See, there’s the problem.

There are about five Italian resturants that are not a chain in the greater Twin Cities, maybe four. In Boston’s North End alone, in an area the size of Northeast, there are 37. In my old home town, not a large city, there are 19.

All of the above does not count pizza. As noted a pizza joint is not an Italian restaurant. But, in Albany and a few other places, some of the pizza joints are actually Italian restaurants that just foreground pizza, so there are even more counting those.