June 3rd A. P. Giannini's Day. One Of The Greatest 'Giant' to Celebrate Italy's Republic Day in San Francisco Bay Area

What a better way to celebrate Italy's Republic Day in San Francisco but remembering today A. P. Giannini's 70th death anniversary. 

If San Francisco -- meaning the ones who rule it -- had a nanogram of their own core memory and historical awareness about the extra-ordinary and outstanding Italian legacy of the City, instead of being always stuck with "the Columbus egg", today June 3rd 2019 we should celebrate "Giannini's Day", remembering a real "Giant" of the SF Bay Area, and the Nation.

Giannini was the quintessence of the Californian and American Dream, making it happen not just for himself starting from scratch, but for anyone else. A unique philanthropist, having really "disrupted" banking and finance (created Bank of Italy, later Bank of America), being social-committed and driven for the good.

"He succeeded in transforming the working class into the middle class, making a social and economic leap for Californians and the Italian immigrants, who were previously ignored and marginalized. Giannini gave them dignity, helped them to become American citizens, aware of their European roots." 

A forerunner of the modern ATM, Credit Cards and Venture Capital and Silicon Valley (see Hewlett and Packard). 

We all owe him su much, Walt Disney world included, but first and foremost the rebuild of San Francisco destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, the creation od the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge (having signed the bonds to support Strauss projects), both symbols of beauty and of unification of a multicultural nation, instead of walls and discrimination.

The greatest herald of HOPE instead of FEAR, KINDNESS in lieu of HATE.

Bottom line, "disruption" wouldn't be today but another tech buzz word only, rather a social, cultural and political paradigm shift to lead the future as real protagonists. 

A. P Giannini, "The People's Banker" by Francesca Valente is one of a kind opportunity to start learning it.

Thanks a mil to Umberto Mucci editor in chief at "We The Italians" for this wonderful interview.