On Joey's grandfather's draft card it says that he came from "Portenzo," which might be Potenza.
Probably Potenza. Those Irish clerks at Ellis Island couldn't even spell when they were sober .
I thought it was illiteracy that led to stuff like that? All the Italians and Irish and Eastern Europeans couldn't spell their own names let alone where they came from!
I invoke my right under the 5th amendment of the United States constitution and decline to answer the question.
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