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6 Joseph Mosconi buildings. Then we stopped at.. .is there a Skunk Harbor, something? There could be; I don’t know. Something. Then at Glenbrook. He let me off at Glenbrook and he went on, and I stayed there. With your father? Yes. How long did you stay there? Until he came around the next week. You know, once a week. The next week, then I got on the boat, and we went around the other way. Was your mother up there, too, with your father? No. Where was she staying? She was staying in Truckee. There at the hotel? No. We had a house across the river from there. That was the very first year you were here, before you went to Angels Camp? That’s right. Well, when I went to Angels Camp, I was old enough to go to school. That’s where I first attended. But you weren’t old enough to go to school when you went to Glenbrook that winter? No. I wasn’t 6 years old until April 1905. OK. So you spent the week there with your father, and then you came back and headed the other way around? Yes. Got on the boat, and away it went, chukchuk-chuk-chuk.[laughter] And we stopped at that one place way over there. There was one building there and then the “Hello there!” So they’d talk a little while, and then I think we stopped at Meeks Bay. And that’s about all. I think he only stopped in about 3 or 4 places. And then you went back to Mr. Finnigan and went back down the...? I don’t remember coming back. I came back; I know I did, because I rode the other way, but I don’t.... You made that trip once? Just once. Well, that’s an important story, a nice story. But then that summer, your father decided to go down to Angels Camp? Angels Camp. He only stayed in Glenbrook for the winter, and right after Glenbrook he went down to Angels Camp? I’m pretty sure we went right down to Angels Camp. Why did he go to Angels Camp and not somewhere else? There was quite a few Italians there. And there was people from our country.
University of Nevada Oral History Program 7 From Grosio or from around Grosio? Yes, but I can’t tell you their names or anything. I know that they worked in the mines. And your dad went to work in the mines, too? He worked in the mines. You don’t happen to know what he made, working in the mines there, do you? Do you remember what they paid him? I remember him talking about there was people working on the ranches, arid they were getting 50¢ a day and board. Now, I don’t remember how much my father was making in the mines. He wasn’t making very much. It was the Cross Shaft mine. I always remember that name. Then there was another mine, American mine What was your dad’s name? Bartolo. We called him Bert. What was his job in the mines? Well, he [worked] the drilling machine. See, there was a lot of gold in that country. When it rained—there was no pavement those days; it was all wagon ruts—where the water.... Used to pick up gold, strings of gold. Nuggets. Everybody was out! All the children and everybody was out there going up and down these ruts, because the water would wash [the gold into the ruts]. Do you remember where you lived in Angels Camp? What kind of a place you had there? Well, we had a place that was this way from Angels Camp, kind of up on the hill. There was quite a few homes there. Didn’t belong to us—was just rented. We had a big kind of a hall-like building on the same piece of property, and I know that people used to go there and meet. I don’t know what it was all about. It was kind of a meeting hall. It happened to be on the property where we lived. We didn’t own it; pretty sure we didn’t. That was the first place you went to school— Angels Camp? Angels Camp. Did you have any trouble in school? You probably didn’t know very much English; you hadn’t been in America very long. You must’ve spoken Italian with your family, right? Yes. I never had no trouble. I went to school with a Les Schoen. He’s still alive. He’s the man that owns the Last Chance up here in Verdi. In fact I was a pallbearer when his wife passed away; he called me. Les Schoen and I were in the same class. But you didn’t have any trouble with the schoolwork because of the English? No. And you could understand enough English by then? I guess so. Of course, you’d been here for a little while by then. Yes. I got along pretty good. I never had no trouble, and they used to say, “Gee, you speak English pretty clearly.” Even right now
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