Northern California •
Cotati – Italian community in the area's grape-growing industry. •
Excelsior District,
San Francisco – Italian-American Social Club is on Russia St., and Calabria Brothers Deli is around the corner on Mission Street. •
Fresno and some Italian descendants in portions of the
San Joaquin Valley (i.e.
Kern County with its grape industry). •
Gilroy – Italian community in the area's grape-growing industry. • "Italian Colony",
Oakland. •
Marin County (Albert Park, San Rafael). •
Napa – Little Italy is the East Napa historic neighborhoods of First-Juarez-Third Streets and Alta Heights. The
Napa Valley wine industry owes its heritage to Italian vintners. •
North Beach,
San Francisco – baseball legend
Joe DiMaggio grew up here. The Italian Heritage Parade (formerly the Columbus Day Parade) is the oldest in the U.S. and one of the largest. North Beach is also the home of City Lights Books, which helped to give birth to the Beats literary movement. •
Sacramento metro area – descendants of the 1849 California Gold Rush. •
San Jose – San Jose's old Italian neighborhoods are Goose Town, North San Jose and the River Street/San Pedro Neighborhood. Each of these neighborhoods consisted of an Italian Church built by the Italian American community. The River Street Neighborhood is currently being revitalized and is now referred to as Little Italy San Jose. This neighborhood is located adjacent to the SAP Center and is anchored by a Gateway Arch and Italian Cultural Center & Museum and has several authentic Italian businesses. •
Santa Cruz County – CA coastal county. •
Sonoma County –the
Italian Swiss Colony coop founded in the 1880s by Andrea Sbarbaro from
Switzerland. • Spaghetti Hill,
Monterey – birthplace of former Secretary of Defense
Leon Panetta. The
Salinas Valley also has many Italian descendants. •
Stockton – descendants of the 1849 California Gold Rush. •
Temescal, Oakland was thriving with Italian immigrants since the 1960s. •
Beaumont – grape industry. •
Camarillo – wine and grape industry. • Desert Ridge/Sun City Shadow Hills,
Indio. •
Fontana – wine and grape industry. •
Highland. •
Los Angeles •
Downtown Los Angeles (Fashion District), Italian community currently located around S Los Angeles Blvd. • Formerly
Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles (
East Los Angeles (region)) which had a Little Italy, before they relocated to nearby
Alhambra and
Montebello. Casa Italiana, further n on N Broadway, near Solono Canyon is a historical hall of Italian heritage. • •
Italian American Museum of Los Angeles • Via Italia,
San Pedro •
Long Beach has a community, among others in LA metro area. • The
Coachella Valley – Order of Sons of Italy America has a group there. •
Palm Springs has a neighborhood known as
Little Tuscany, and the neighborhoods of Las Palmas and
the Movie Colony. •
San Diego –
Little Italy also in
Point Loma. •
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