post-WWII Scottish immigration to California

**Ninehostages** · 10th August 21, 05:28 AM

The sun must have amazed them.

**OC Richard** · 10th August 21, 05:41 AM

Originally Posted by Ninehostages

The sun must have amazed them.

What's interesting in that regard is that some of the men had served in North Africa and Sicily.

Perhaps they found the Mediterranean climate to their liking, and decided to seek such after the war.

**Ninehostages** · 10th August 21, 07:17 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

What's interesting in that regard is that some of the men had served in North Africa and Sicily.

Perhaps they found the Mediterranean climate to their liking, and decided to seek such after the war.

... lots of Italians in the Napa Valley, too.

**OC Richard** · 15th August 21, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by Ninehostages

... lots of Italians in the Napa Valley, too.

Also here in Southern California.

We have towns which have names many assume to be Spanish but which are actually Italian such as Pomona and Fontana.

When my family moved here in the 1960s there were still a few Italian wineries holding on, most had moved north.

Orange County had a German contingent who established wineries and named Anaheim.

Around 1900 a blight wiped out the wine grapes and most switched to citrus. (Orange County was already so named, before oranges were grown here.)