Bocci Ball Anyone?

Revised 1935 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Susanville, indicating the Bocci Ball Courts.

This is one of those interesting little discoveries, that I do not know anything. In the 1930s, there was a Bocci Ball Court located at 1019 Orchard Street, Susanville. Also spelled as Bocce is in the simplest term as Italian lawn bowling. Where the court was located was part of the housing section for the employees of the Lassen Lumber & Box Company. In the company’s, 1923 photograph album portfolio has a photograph with the caption “Housing for the Italians.” Initially, Lassen Lumber hired a number of Italian immigrants, followed by Spaniards and Filipinos. How long the court existed, I have not a clue and in all my years of research I have never come across a single reference of Bocci being played in Susanville.

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