The city I was born in is ... or was ... known for having more Italian immigrants than NY fucking C. Rome even gifted it a very nice fountain for its riverfront because of this, in the 1990s (though they started to come in droves in the early 20th century - my grandfather's first job before going to Chrysler was working with Italian masons to install the marble flooring in the downtown post office.) The old architecture all over the city has their fingerprints all over it.
When this song came out, it was #1 for weeks. The Detroit DJs even got kind of exasperated over how many Windsor Italians were calling in and requesting it, and said so on air.
Holy shit my dad was an Italian immigrant to Windsor. I knew where you were going the second you said “Chrysler”.
Anyway I fucking hate the mafia goomba jersey shore greaseball stereotype (I get why it exists, but I hate it), and I still think that trigger warning is fucking retarded.
The city I was born in is ... or was ... known for having more Italian immigrants than NY fucking C. Rome even gifted it a very nice fountain for its riverfront because of this, in the 1990s (though they started to come in droves in the early 20th century - my grandfather's first job before going to Chrysler was working with Italian masons to install the marble flooring in the downtown post office.) The old architecture all over the city has their fingerprints all over it.
When this song came out, it was #1 for weeks. The Detroit DJs even got kind of exasperated over how many Windsor Italians were calling in and requesting it, and said so on air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs
And yeah, Mafia. Lots of 'em. It's the weirdest thing to stumble into one of their fronts.
Holy shit my dad was an Italian immigrant to Windsor. I knew where you were going the second you said “Chrysler”.
Anyway I fucking hate the mafia goomba jersey shore greaseball stereotype (I get why it exists, but I hate it), and I still think that trigger warning is fucking retarded.
That song is something else. Do you remember when Joe Pesci released an album as Vincent Gambini from "My Cousin Vinnie"?
https://youtu.be/OKYHGskALD4?si=RI2m1Cxo40J9o884
He had the song, "Take Your Love and Shove it Up Your Big Fat Ass"
I had no idea Windsor had a large Italian diaspora.
Oh, yeah. You should see what happens whenever Italy wins the World Cup. At least it's peaceful chaos.
I really miss the bakeries, though. They'd make all kinds of things, canolis, rolled pizzas, stuff I can't remember the names of.