- so how long have you lived in this community? - 78 years. - so your whole life. - yes. - now, the first wave of italians who came here from italy, why did they come here? did they come here for steel jobs? coal? - actually, trade. i think they came here more for the trade. - yeah. - yeah, plumbers, bricklayers, any kind of trade like that. - some italians said that they were told to come over here and they were gonna find the roads paved with gold. they said, "they didn't tell us we had to build them first." - yeah. [laughter] [indistinct chatter] [scattered cheers] - how's the neighborhood changed over the years? still predominantly italian american, or...? - yeah, not as much as it was, but it's still more italian than anything else. - for 35 years or so, it was a tough time for pittsburgh. why did people stay? - family. familia. - i tell people, when you come to bloomfield, don't talk about anybody because we're all connected somehow.