Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 9, numbers 91 through 101

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INTERVIEW: Nielsen Page 2 migrated into Utah and Salt Lake at a later date lived. There were Italians and many of middle Europe, Yugoslavians, Greeks, Georgians, Armenians, almost anything that you can name. VM You had quite a melting pot there. HN Well as I go over the year book, at tha.t time, which was the year that I left there in about 1924, I don't find very many foreign names. And yet my, one of the few was Vietti and Alias. Hoots Alias we called him, Paul, quite a basketball player. Renald Vietti, another by the name of George Scusel was president of our sophomore class which was four or five years later. Andrew Contratto, the Vietti fellow had a brother named John who was going to school at that time, who later became a doctor. Joe Brisk, one of the few Jews that was able to make it in Bingham. PN How many Jewish families were there? HN Well, the Brisk family had Chestler and Mrs. Chestler was a Brisk. So actually, there were only two familie~. Chestler, Theodore Chestler,was the operator of a show and had been all of the time from there, and he married a Brisk woman and, of course, her brothers were in town. She had three brothers and they ran the show business up there. And these were the only Jews, Jewish people, that were able to make it in Bingham, not because of the Italians or the Mexicans, but because of the Greeks. From the bottom of Bingham to the top of Copperfield we had Greeks all