My Memoirs - Citizen of the World

they agreed that I was an asset to the company and could be
transferred to an office in Newport, Rhode Island.
I visited Bristol a few times after that to look for a place to rent or
purchase. Deodete and I found a home that had just been built at 3
Charlotte Drive in Bristol. I contacted the builder whose name
was Palazini, and he told me that the price for the house was
twenty-three thousand dollars. It also required a three thousand
dollar down payment. I had only fifteen hundred dollars in our
savings account. My mother, who was living with us, had another
fifteen hundred, and she let us borrow it. So I went to the Old
Stone Bank and got a loan for a twenty thousand dollar mortgage.
My monthly payment was $123.00. At about the same time, my
partner and I hired Fred Bruno, a very well known attorney in
Bristol, to prepare the necessary paperwork we needed to
incorporate our firm, which we named Pacheco & Rosa Inc. The
location of our new business was a former grocery store named
Rosa's Market on the corner of Child Street and Metacom Avenue
in Warren, Rhode Island.
Starting Our Life in Bristol, Rhode Island
The day after Thanksgiving in 1969, I rented a Ryder truck to
transport all of our furniture to our new home. On the way, we
stopped at a restaurant called Michaeletti's (which no longer exists)
on Metacom Avenue. We didn’t have McDonalds or Burger King
or Dunkin Donuts back then. The only restaurants were
Michaeletti's and Rego's. After we had a bite to eat, we proceeded
to our new home. It was a very nice, pre-fabricated house. We
were very pleased with it; it had three bedrooms, a basement, a
garage and a car port, and it was all for a very good price. But,
apart from my partner, Eduardo Rosa and his family, we didn't
know anyone in Bristol.
My wife and Eduardo's wife both got a job at the American
Tourister Company in Warren. They hated it. Again, I tried to
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