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# 60 • MAY 17 , 2015
# 60 • MAY 17 , 2015
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and I love it. I’m a volunteer:
we have the same qualification
as a full time paid professional firefighter, but we don’t sit
in the station all day long and
get paid. We do our normal
jobs, and when they call us if
we’re available we join them.
Now I’ve moved and so I’m not
able to help as many times as
before; but anyway, that’s the
firefighter part of me. I really
enjoyed it!
Domenick Crimi
By Umberto Mucci
I also have had a career as a
professional
photographer,
about 5 years after college.
Then, in 2005, my wife convinced me to change my career …
9th Street Italian Market. That’s old I was; I was 17 so he said: I was working two days a week
why we’re happy and proud to “When you turn 18 why don’t in the butcher shop, and she
host as our guest the President you come down and join the convinced me to come back
of the association which runs firehouse?”. So, I went and I full time. My parents were getthe market, our friend Dome- joined the firehouse and now ting older, turning 80 at that
nick Crimi.
I’m 54 and I’m still involved time, and somebody needed
During the years of mass emigration from Italy to the US,
one of the peculiarities of the
Little Italies all over the US definitively was the street market.
Many used to spend several
hours on the street: people
would work hard, start their
small business, socialize with
other “paisanos”, meet friends
and maybe fut \