Not long ago, I ran into a colleague on Green Street between Powell and Columbus. When Rita saw me she asked, “Hey, what are you doing in Chinatown?”

Her question perplexed me. Chinatown? I had just walked out of the Casa Coloniale Italiana Fugazi, San Francisco’s oldest Italian community center. We were standing in front of the former location of Valente, Marini, Perata & Company—the funeral home once owned by Italian philanthropist and so-called “Mayor of North Beach” Frank Marini.

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