Concetta Distaso Capacchione on her wedding day, the day after her 21st birthday, March 22, 1935

1935 black and white photograph showing Concetta Distaso Capacchione in a photography studio for her wedding portrait in Los Angeles’ Little Italy.

I chose this object because it is beautiful and Concetta donated this photograph as part of our oral history with her. Concetta aka Connie was the first person I interviewed when I started the Studio for Southern California History and she taught me a lot. We became very close friends, we visited often, and she died in 2012. I miss her so much. I include Object 6 – a 2010 photograph of the family home in Little Italy at 808 New Depot Street. This home still exists, and Connie’s daughter Lucia Capacchione remembers watching them build the 110 fwy in 1947 from the porch when she was a little girl. -Sharon Sekhon

The Studio for Southern California History

Provenance: Digital copy donated by Concetta Capacchione in 2006 as part of her oral history.

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