by Catherine Accardi

The role of Italian Americans in the development and preservation of San Francisco's Italian character dates back to the earliest days when thousands of Italian immigrants arrived in the Bay Area beginning in the mid 1800s and continuing through the 1940s.

As a matter of fact, April 18th marked the 109th anniversary of the devastating San Francisco disaster of 1906. It was a time that signaled headlines like "Earthquake, Fire & the Great Build". Just as most of San Francisco was devastated, so was Little Italy. It was a time when many immigrants lived on or around Telegraph Hill in simple, wooden cottages clinging to a hill overlooking the shoreline and bay that offered many Italians a source of income as laborers, shipbuilders, longshoremen, and fishermen. 

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano