5020 Telegraph c1910

Description:
Proprietor Cesare Orio (center) and employees in front of his grocery store at present-day 5020 Telegraph Avenue (formerly 5010 Telegraph Avenue), Temescal District, Oakland, Calif. "Note sign in window on left, indicating that Mrs. Orio provided dressmaking and millinery service." [Ray Raineri note]

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Date of Document:
c1910

Document Author:
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Geographic Location:
5020 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, Calif.

Context:
Cesare Orio also co-owned the Liberty Bakery on the southeast corner of Telegraph Avenue and 43rd Street in Temescal. His son-in-law, Stefano Persoglio, was his partner in that business. Orio earlier had operated The Original Italian and French Bakery in West Oakland. As a young man he had worked in the Bilger Quarry.