Catherine Remembers the Gaslights

• Catherine Remembers the Gaslights

  
  

  Catherine Gaetano Gallippi recalls her mother’s disappointment with the power source in America.

  Credit / Author:

  Ellis Island Oral History Collection

  Date created:

  10/14/2020

 

Catherine Remembers the Gaslights (Transcript)

Interviewee: Catherine Gaetano Gallippi
Date of Birth: February 17, 1914
Date of Interview: December 12, 1990
Interviewer: Paul E. Sigrist, Jr.
Immigrated from Italy at Age 8 in 1922
Ellis Island Collection: EI-17

Gallippi (Her Mother's Disappointment with America): When we came here into America my mother complained, she says, "My God, I thought America was supposed to be something great. You have gaslights here. We had electric lights in Italy." (she laughs)