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Show 7 MMesttomes film THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, January 2, 1986 Lfivnimg Sixtieth Anniversary The Calendar Changing For Rose And Ralph Colosimo i Ethel Bradford S f Cl by LaRee Pehrson Oreen Sheet Staff Writer Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Colosimo, Magna, will observe their 60th wedding anniversary on Sunday, January 5th. A Mass will be celebrated in their honor at 1 p.m. in Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 2840 So. 9000 West, followed by an open house in the Parish Hall until 4 p.m. Friends and relatives are being invited to both the Mass and the open house. No formal invitations have been sent and they request no gifts. There were no curbs, gutters or sidewalks, and some areas of the town didnt have electricity or inside plumbing. In fact, there were septic tanks and outhouses until the Magna Water and Sewer Improvement District was created by the S. L. County Commission on July 7, 1949., Both the Empress and the Gem Theatres were running a simultaneously several nights week, and the Palace, Grand and Panama Hotels were filled to overflowing with single men who had come to work in the mills. The Colosimos set up housekeeping over the Rome Grocery in a The Standard also had most of the Italian trade because they stocked a wide variety of pasta, which the other stores did not carry. In those days if you had your own business you were doing well. But it was a hard life because every day Ralph went out to the nearby farms and made early morning trips to the Growers Market in down town Salt Lake (where the Hilton Hotel now stands) in order to have the finest fresh produce in town. He bought cantalopes and honeydew from the Fuelner Farm near the old Bello Crossing, and built a business based on competitive prices and good fresh produce. The melons sold for five cents each and potatoes for 50 cents a hundred pounds. The eggs that he obtained from local farmers for seven or eight cents a dozen were sold for ten cents over the counter. It was 1936 when Ralph and Rose moved to the down town area and set up the new Standard Market in the building that now houses Hatfields Bakery. But in 1937 hard times forced Ralph to sell the business but not the building and he "hired on at Utah Copper where he worked on the dike. He retired as a repairman at the Arthur Mill in 1965. In the years between the time Ralph and Rose ran the Standard Market, until the time their sons took over, the store was operated by several different people. Marie Erickson, who had a full line grocery store, retained the Standard Market name, but Bert Richardson changed the name to the Cyprus Variety Store. The last few months the facility was under the management of Fletcher Heilesen who didnt much like the grocery businss. He sold it back to the Colosimo brothers and they reopened in August 1947. Later they moved into what was once the old Ralph Colosimo was born March 6, Calabria, a small farin southern Italy. community ming In I92i; when he was just 22 years old, he came to the United States aboard the ship Gulermia Perci in search of a new life. When he reached the new world, he worked in a coal mine in Colorado. However, he soon found out that working underground in the bowels of the earth was not to his so he came to Magna where he went into business with his uncle, Joe Pagnotta, in what was then known as the Rome Grocery on the 1899 in Aiello, cleaning up delightful mess the that Christmas brings. Put- 1 ting the decorations The first year I began this note book of days I realized how much of a family diary it had become. It had marked the days of rejoicing as well as our anxieties and so, in a moment of sentimentality, I tucked it into one of the Christmas boxes and kept it. The next year I did the same, and now I have a whole collection of our away for another year, and, as I work, mentally not only the events of this past Holiday Season, but those of the past, as well. If My decorations are a conglomerate lot. Some baubles I trace back to when AW and I shared the tree alone and many that came when JR and WR were children days. Its As they matured, however, my ideas of decorating changed and so there is a collection of sophisticated trinkets, but now, with Michael, Eric and Rachael on board, I find I use the child proof ones once again. for they have become an amazing skeleton of how my days, years and very life has changed. The calendars begin with doctor appointments for the childrens shots and then give way to music and swimming lessons; Cub Scouts became Boy Scouts and then come more adult happenings as driving lessons, first cars, first dates, first jobs, high school, the University, marriage and grandchildren! And, along with this comes another chore that is part and parcel of the season for me. I call it Changing the Calendar. Now, my calendar is like none other, being a combination date book, reminder, doctor and dentist appointment book, and all those other bits of stuff a woman wants to both remember and be reminded of. birthday-anniversar- y Each calendar is a brief but revealing story of a year and while there are some I would like to cross out because of the pain they brought, nevertheless, I keep them, give them but a cursory glance and tuck them tightly away. I hang it on the inside of a handy kitchen cabinet door for it becomes too much of a personal diary to keep in the open. The numbers are small, but each is boxed in a nice big blank square so that I have plenty of room for my notes. So, at this time of the year, I carefully both fun, amusing, nostalgic and heartbreaking to look back through them Yes, those calendars are written memories both bless and burn, and, as I add 1985s, I note all the good things this year has brought. that A teaching challenge I would once have considered impossible; two new friends (not just acquaintances); and . . . Shanti, an inner peace that, Shanti, Shanti when these calendars first began, I didn't know existed. go through the old calendar, transferring dates I want to remember into the new one. That's the start, and from then on, each day or week adds anew note. ... It goes from, say, a book I want to find and read, to when it would be nice to make a certain phone call or send a note to someone on some particular day. It matters little whether the day is a sad or glad one for the person, each is better for someone else remembering, too. Its a simple way to keep track of your lifes happenings and I hope you will take heed and begin your own. A record of laughter, work, tears, fun, holidays, heartbreak ... all the things that make up the days of our life. I'jlh Kawlings Called To Serve LDS Mission lik-in- corner of 2894 This week, like any good homemaker, I'm So. 9100 West. Born in Pedivigliano, Italy on August 27th 1908, Rose Barbieri came to the United States in August 1922, traveling second class aboard the luxury liner President Wilson. She was accompanied by her oldest brother. She recalls that due to the fact she was a minor ... not quite 14 years of it took 11 days for her to be age processed through Ellis Island by the immigration authorities. She also noted that the rest of her family did not immigrate to this country until ten years later. Thank you for recognizing what happens at 3:00 a.m. Christmas Eve in many homes around the country. It may be an incentive for someone to invent a way to find the end of the Robert Rawlings has been called to serve an LDS mission in San scotch tape while holding both ends of a Christmas package. Edrie Petersen, Mother According to Florence Packard, Murray, the words which appeared in Ethel Bradford's Christmas column "Funny, funny mother" were written by Sandra Gilbert. Clearance Ber-nadin- California and was honored at a farewell meeting held in the Midvale East 2nd ward on December 29. ... Since European marriage customs were different than those in this country, the marriage between Ralph and Rose was an arranged one, with Emilio Lorenzo acting as the At the onset of the arrangement, Lorenzo told Ralph that he should be thinking about getting married, but Ralph answered that he could not afford a wife. Later Lorenzo asked him if he would like to meet a nice girl, and w'hen the answer was in the affirmative, he took Ralph to see Rose who was living with another Italian family in Salt Lake. Although it was not love at first sight, Ralph did like what he saw, and each time he visited the attraction grew. With money Lorenzo offered to loan him, Ralph bought an engagement ring, and six months later, on Jan. 2, 1926, the two were married in the S.L.. City and County building in a civil ceremony performed by a judge. Jenny Finocchio was maid of honor, Joe Finocchio best man and Eda Cosco served as bridesmaid. In 1394, after three of their four children were born, they were remarried with a religious ceremony in Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, with Father William Vaughn (now Monsignor Vaughn of theS.L. Diocese) officiating. The Magna that the newlyweds came to was vastly different from the Magna of today. The city borders extended only to 8800 West, and conanything east of that point was so was it because rural sidered populated. sparsely Factory Outlet ' 4 - jfjwiii1';- small apartment where two of their children, Gabriel and Ernest, were born. Later they moved across the street, on the southeast corner, where they built a combined home and neighborhood store called the Bungalow Market. At the same time the Colosimos were running the Rome and the Bungalow Markets there were a host of other retail food establishments competing for the same dollar. Rowsell that was Lindsay operated by Edgar Lindsay and A1 Rowsell; Coopers run by Bill Cooper; Wolfenden Market owned by the Wolfenden family; Sunnyside Market owned by Mike Perrick; Pappass Utah Market; Buckners Cyprus Grocery; the Rock Springs Market owned by John Kochonis who also traveled the town selling ice from an ice wagon; Falvos Market operated by Louis Falvo; and two Japanese green grocers T. Mori and K. Endo. & The stores were all operated on a credit basis, and three of them delivered groceries from orders taken over the phone . . . catering primarily to the wives of the supervisory personnel at Utah Copper. However Standard Markets clientel extended to as far west as Tooele, and they also delivered food to Dry Fork and Harker Canyons. 33 0DQjE MENTANDIWOMEN - ; t. ' . J.C. Penney Store and Jims Club Cafe, and are still doing business at that site. In 1951, after years of sharing quarters with their grocery Sweaters. business, the Colosimos built a home and acquired two rental units on the site of the old Bamburger (Orem) Depot, between 2700 and 2800 South on 9000 West. The land was purchased from Builders Supply who acthe property when the elecquired tric railroad that provided transportation between Magna and Salt Lake was phased out in 1947. For For the whole family. fhe whole family, woold and blends. Large assortment of sizes. 50 Ket-chu- The rental units were created from a house that formerly housed the station master, and another building that was moved over from Garfield when Kennecott went out of the real estate business. Together Ralph and Rose have raised four children. Gabriel Colosimo, Ernest Colosimo and Rose Marie Feraco live in Magna, and Jean Guido lives in Salt Lake. They also have 20 grandchildren and 13 In looking back over the past six decades, the Colosimos recall each year as good, because, in spite of the hard times, the people were friendly and they had fun together visiting their friends. Friendship was more valuable than money in those days, they said, because everyone helped one another. Today Ralph and Rose work in in the summer time and visit with the neighborhood children all year around. And together they agree that although their marriage was an arranged one, it grew into a relationship filled with love, respect and friendship that has bound them together for all the years they have shared. their garden warmth and you'll choose a coat fiom Deseiet Industries eveiy Go foi Robert is a graduate of Hillcrest high and has attended the UofU. He is an Eagle Scout and has competed in Region and State VICA competi lime. $1 tions. He will enter the training center on January 9, 1986. to $6 JAN. 2 10 To 11 A.M. fettm Boots Dear Ethel, Super Selection when she lived in Granger and had five children under nine years of age, the last being twins who were three at the time. For 1 Hour Only 50 that appeared in your Christmas paper was written by Sandra Petersen Gilbert in 1969 The poem Everything in Store will be Half price. All items have been cleaned and referbished by the elderly, handicapped and those in need. Our Best Work is Your Best Buy Her husband, Jim, was an LDS Bishop at the time and any Mother who has tried to keep that many children quiet during Sacrament meeting can sympathize with a Funny, Funny Mother. Funny Mothers from California, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho have responded to what happens just before Christmas in any normal home. Bob Welti read it over tell us the fog inversion was nothing compared Funny, Funny Mother Price Sale Channel 5 to we were in, to the fog was in. Deseret Industries Thrift Store SANDY 727 WEST JORDAN 1550 West 7800 South East 9400 South MURRAY 4485 South Main Street Deseret Industries is a federally approved sheltered workshop. Its clients elderly, handicapped, or in need reclaim donated goods. - those who are |