STRAVINO’S ITALIAN STORE
Early in the 20th century, many immi- grants from southern Italy worked at the nearby Whitehall Portland Cement Com- pany. Homeowners commonly furnished room and board to the workers… and you can imagine their Mediterranean palates clashing with the heavy Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine!
The foods they loved were in short supply locally – and a trip to New York could be a major undertaking. But where others saw diffi culty, an enterprising Italian immi- grant named Pasquale Stravino saw op- portunity. He began buying bulk quanti- ties of those favored foods in Manhattan, for resale to his hungry countrymen. And so began the shop in Cementon which was the foundation for one of the Lehigh Valley’s most treasured specialty food vendors – Stravino’s Italian Store.
By 1921, Stravino’s business had really taken off . In addition to his local trade, he supplied foodstuff s to McAdoo, White Ha- ven and other locales. That year, he relo- cated the store to 4th and Washington Sts. in Allentown.
GENERATIONS OF OWNERSHIP
His son, Joseph, took over the business in 1944, and moved the store again 22 years later; this time, to Penn and Washington Sts., just a block away.
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