A very nice article by Richard S. Chang, that is kind of a variation on an old Cowboy theme of a Man and His Horse. Massimiliano Nanni, one of the owners of Saraghina, a pizzeria-ristorante in Bed Stuy, tools around in a 1965 Econoline pickup.
“All my life, I dreamed about such a truck,” he said. “My wife said, ‘O.K., you can buy it.’ You know, the wife makes all the decisions.”
A warm and amusing article about American dreams and dreamers, Brooklyn business, the working life, and oh, yes, our quintessential American relationship with the automobile.
Article here
But Mr Nanni is Italian, not American, so I guess our relationship to automobiles is the same as Americans ;)
ReplyDeleteExcellent point! But of course clearly one does not necessarily have to be an American to share in the American dream. I am an American, proudly of Italian descent.
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