The witty and ever present Alysia Gray Painter, writer of all thing L.A. on nbclosangeles.com, peeks inside Los Angeles's Little Italy. Addressing L.A's "Food Lovers, History Aficionados, People Who Have to Know What Used to Be on Every Corner of Our Storied Megalopolis," Painter says:
nbclosangelesVisitors see Little Tokyo and Little Ethiopia, and they often ask where LA's Little Italy is, or was. They want to know more of the story of our city's first Italian immigrants, their businesses, how they impacted what Los Angeles would become. Author Mariann Gatto looks back -- way back, to the 1800s -- and better illustrates the faces and names behind the events.
