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What am I going to do with these plums?

Garlic Gulch Legacy by Mikala Woodward, Excerpted from Rainier Valley Food Stories Cookbook Many Italian families – like many other...

Dinnertime in Garlic Gulch

Thursday and Sunday was spaghetti day Rainier Valley’s Italian heritage goes back a hundred years or more. Back then, the Valley was...

Garlic Gulch Wedding

Rainier Valley’s Italian heritage goes more than a hundred years. Back then, the Valley was largely forests and farms, with the streetcar...

John Croce on Italian School

Audio recording of John Croce recollecting the Italian School from the Garlic Gulch neighborhood in the 1930s.

Scuola Italiana

They came down from Beacon Hill, from the Central District, and from the valley floor. Most came by foot with a friend or two. The...