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Bankers, Guns and Money

In the summer of 1877, a disgruntled employee shot Luigi Giannini over a couple dollars, gunning him down in Alviso, California. Giannini’s seven-year-old son, Amadeo Pietro (A.P.) Giannini, witnessed the murder. The incident forever shaped him. The young Giannini was born in the Swiss Hotel on Market Street in downtown San Jose, right where a […]