Born: 1918
Died: January 16, 2005
Occupation: Nutritionist
Ethnic Background: Italian
Interviewer: Henry Young
Summary: Tape describes family's arrival in Lawrence (1918), Chestnut St. Italian neighborhood, father a neighborhood leader, neighborhood pride of ownership, neighborhood in tolerable repair in the 1950s, rumors property in area to be taken for renewal, shift toward absentee landlords, neighborhood gradual decline, family bakery in decline after father's death, Common Valley project, new tenants in bakery use it as front for betting parlor before eviction, official notice of renewal, public meeting on fate of Plains area, DePippo sisters ostracized by neighborhood for voting for Plains project, no relocation interview conducted, agony of living under uncertainty for a long period, program impoverished the family, terrible thing to do to a neighborhood, terrible thing to do to a neighborhood, public meeting a charade.
see also Urban Renewal
R OK
Collection
Lawrence History Center Oral History Collection
https://lawrencehistory.org/files/audio/oh/2007.500.145-depippo.mp3
Date (created)
1994-02-18