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Croatians in America - photo collection by Vladimir Novak, part 2
By Prof.Dr. Darko Zubrinic | Published  03/20/2008 | People , History , Croatian Life Stories | Unrated
Croatian Energy, page 2


 
Nalley Marcus (Narančić Marko), rođen u Lici u Hrvatskoj, u svom autu za dostavu: Tacoma, Washington, oko 1926. Počeo je u svom apartmanu proizvoditi i pakirati chips, što je s vremenom razvio u veliku multimilijunašku industriju.


Nalley Marcus (Narančić Marko), born in Lika in Croatia, in his first delivery car in Tacoma, Washington, around 1926. He started making and packing potato chips in his apartment until his business grew in multi-million dollar packaged dollar industry.



Marko Narančić - Marcus Nalley, born in Lika, Croatia



 
Marcus Nalley (1890-1962) as a chef at Bonneville Hotel in Tacoma, about 1918. The Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, in 1931, named him "First Citizen of  Tacoma". The Pierce County Board of Commissioners, just a few months before his death, presented him with its  "Outstanding Naturalized Citizen Award". For more information see an article by Adam S. Eterovich: King of Potato Chips.





 
Immigrant Mother in America, one of the murals by Maksimilijan Maxo Vanka in St. Nicholas Croatian Church, Milvalle, PA., where he created 22 large murals. His work was widely praised by American art critics.

The weekly TIME of July 19, 1937, had the following to say about the Vanka's murals: "...his completed work had gone far beyond Millvale and Pittsburgh, had put the parish of St. Nicholas in a class by itself as harboring one o the few distingushed sets of church murals in the United States".




Michael A. Bilandic, photo by Vladimir Novak
 
Michael A. Bilandic was one of the more influential and highly respected public figures in Chicago, serving as Mayor of Chicago from 1976 to 1979 and later as Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. He was a loyal Chicagoan and proud of his Croatian heritage. Born in 1923 to Croatian immigrants, he died in 2002, at the age of 78. (Photo by Vladimir Novak).



A very important event for the Croatian community of Chicago took place on Friday, March 14, 2003, in the Loop when a main building of the state judicial system was renamed as the Michael A. Bilandic Building.  On this occasion, in the presence of many distinguished city and state officials, family members, and friends of the late Judge Bilandic, the building was dedicated in his honor.

Source: www.stjeromecroatian.org

University of Illinois at Chicago: Michael A. Bilandic Papers


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Comments
  • Comment #1 (Posted by george krovich)

    my mother was born in pisorvina, married my on his trip to yugoslavia in 1930. he came here at age 16 and worked in the mines in pennyslvania for 47 years and died from blacl lung. i am the only one left from my family. i had a brother that died at 17 in 1951. i enjoyed looking at your pictures. i also saw my mothers home town since i never went to see her family. thank you george krovich
     
  • Comment #2 (Posted by shireen nalley)

    if this is the nalley family please get in contact with me.575-218-2553
     
  • Comment #3 (Posted by lovinac)

    Just a comment on Ek Spahich's commentary...The Croatian Islamic Centre in Toronto was built by Croatians of the Islamic faith and not by "Bosnians", hence the former name, Croatian Islamic Centre. This project was also realized thanks in large part to financial support from various Croatian catholic parishes throughout North America as well as their parishioners.
     
  • Comment #4 (Posted by Daniele)

    i'm looking for Babare clan. i'm building the genealogist tree from my grandmother Luci, born in 1921 in Hvar and her family
     
  • Comment #5 (Posted by Dalmazio Babare)

    My sisters name is Lucj or Lucja - my mother named the first daughter born after my fathers mother
    Lucja Babare (she died Zadar)
     
  • Comment #6 (Posted by Allen Petrich)

    I am a grandson of Martin (Marin) A. Petrich from Starigrad who came with his parents (Juraj/George Petrich & Catherine Budrovich of Hvar) to the US in 1887. I am working on a history of shipyards and boatbuilding on the West Coast of the US centered on the Northwest and the Dalmatian families of Babare (Hvar), Martinolich (Losinj), Skansich/Skansie (US spelling), Petrich (Starigrad), Martinac (Brac) and, in Los Angeles, Rados. The developed the purse seine fishing boat.

    I would appreciate hearing from anyone who would lie contact.

    Allen Petrich: allenpetrich@earthlink.net
     
  • Comment #7 (Posted by Brandie Lynn Bailey - Haining)

    Toni Bailey was my grandmother
     
  • Comment #8 (Posted by Melissa Robles-Dyer)

    I am the Granddaughter of Gloria (Tony) Bailey. We just found out this past Labor Day, that she is celebrated during Roslyn Coal Miner Days. We plan to be inattendance for the festivities in 2015.
     
  • Comment #9 (Posted by Mary Moon)

    My grandfather was George M Karamatic. He played the e flat clarinet in the band.
     
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