John Valentini
By: [narrator, John Valentini ; interviewer, Judith Robinson for the Bancroft Library ; transcriber, Rozell Overmire ; photo editor, Peter Overmire
Contributors: Overmire, Peter; Telegraph Hill Dwellers; Bancroft Library
Series: Telegraph Hill Dwellers oral history
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Notes: "John Valentini is a third generation owner of A. Cavalli & Co., an Italian bookstore in North Beach.  The family bought the business from another Italian family, the Cavallis, in the late 1930's.  The Cavallis had started it in 1880 to serve the San Francisco Italian community."

Interview date : August 15, 1996.