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Breakfast at Nuccio\u2019s – 2008<\/p>\n
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Fifteen years ago Altadena Heritage thought we should celebrate one of our community\u2019s oldest businesses, Nuccio\u2019s, world famous for its camellias. February should be good, plenty of blooms, and we\u2019ll have to drink tea (camellia sinensis). We staged a breakfast event for a Sunday morning, but when the\u00a0 <\/span>day came it was raining steadily. We stood with umbrellas, greeted the few cars that came, and asked them to come back next Sunday.<\/p>\n It was a glorious cool day, around 80 people showed. We\u00a0 <\/span>set up in the upper corner by the house among trees and flowering rhododendrons\u00a0 <\/span>The following was written in 2008, shortly after the Breakfast.<\/p>\n \u201cEvents chair Anita David kept the \u201ccamellia beverage\u201d warm under what seemed like dozens of tea cozies, with help from Lily Etezady and Brownie Allen.\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/altadenaheritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/AnitsLili.jpg” title_text=”Anits&Lili” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_4_text_color=”#6B6B6B” custom_margin=”||21px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Lili Etezady and Anita David serving tea.<\/i><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n More board members, Sandra Miller and husband Jim, collected money and rounded up chairs, and Thomas Stahl created his normal beautiful graphics. We heard the intriguing family business story of Nuccios as told by one of its founders, Julius Nuccio. Local historian Michele Zack gave a talk on Altadena\u2019s Nurseried Past, providing lots of evidence on how important commercial and private nurseries and gardens have been to Altadena from the very beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t just for fun that we invited the public to this glorious spot in the hills; memories of the bitter struggle over the La Vi\u00f1a development were still fresh, and we wanted people to be conscious that this land was eligible for development. Someone asked Julius about the future of Nuccio\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s for sale,\u201d he said.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cMake me an offer.\u201d The Nuccio\u2019s knew that when they retired, it would be the end of the nursery.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/altadenaheritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mingle.jpg” title_text=”mingle” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_4_text_color=”#6B6B6B” custom_margin=”||21px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Guests enjoying the morning<\/i><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fifteen years ago Altadena Heritage thought we should celebrate one of our community\u2019s oldest businesses, Nuccio\u2019s, world famous for its camellias. 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