Ciao, Battista: Memoirs of My Life

Ciao, Battista: Memoirs of My Life by Battista Antonio Locatelli. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781597151078.

Battista Locatelli is best known as the successful restauranteur from Las Vegas, Nevada. But he started out as a skinny little boy growing up in a small town in Italy before the Second World War. Recorded here in his memoirs are the stories of the events and people that helped shape his life. He approached each job with initiative and determination—from making deliveries in a mule-drawn cart as a young boy, to towing logs in the Swiss mountains as a teenager, to operating farm equipment then working in a slaughterhouse in northern California, delivering hotel room service orders to celebrities in Hollywood, and driving buses in Las Vegas—and made lasting friends along the way. In Ciao, Battista this eighty-something-year-old Italian- American man shows just what one can accomplish with common sense and hard work.