Carrie Capasso (1896 - 1990)

Carrie's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Capasso family tree.

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Carrie's Parents

Luigi Lallo

Unknown parent

Carrie Capasso

Roland Lallo

Parents:

Luigi Lallo

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Siblings:

Roland Lallo

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Carrie Capasso & Ralph Capasso

Carrie Capasso

Ralph Capasso

Spouse:

Ralph Capasso

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James Pannozzi

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I had the pleasure of meeting Ralph and Carrie Capasso in the mid 1960's My mother knew either one or both of them and one day we stopped and I met them at their apartment on a side street off of Broadway in Providence. If I recall correctly, I think Carrie had said that she was part of a circus act in her youth, and later married Ralph in the World War l era. Ralph gave me a copy of a novel by Alexander Dumas which he had enjoyed and I had it for many years. Never met them again, but wonderful couple.

Mar 09, 2015 · Reply

James Pannozzi

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Ralph had apparently done some magic act in his youth and knew Charles Foster Fenner (1872-1967) a famous Rhode Island Magician of the vaudeville era who knew many of the historical magician greats. Fenner lived on Cranston St. not far from Route 10, across the street from an old school and half way up a hill. There was an elementary school at the top of the hill. The old house from the 1860's was unfortunately torn down for a parking lot for a restaurant that eventually closed, after Fenner's death. I knew Fenner because in high school I had been a member of his Young Magicians group which included John D'abate, Richard Mis, Eddie Coningford (who passed away in 2006), Richard Osterman, and others.

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In 1896, in the year that Carrie Capasso was born, on May 18th, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. By a vote of 7 to 1, the Court upheld state racial segregation laws, introducing the idea of "separate but equal" facilities for races.

In 1923, when she was 27 years old, on September 1, an earthquake - the Great Kanto earthquake - destroyed one-third of Tokyo. Measuring 7.9 and with a reported duration of between 4 and 10 minutes, casualties totaled about 142,800 deaths, including about 40,000 who went missing and were presumed dead.

In 1953, at the age of 57 years old, Carrie was alive when on January 20th, Dwight D. Eisenhower became the 34th President of the United States. Formerly the 1st Supreme Allied Commander Europe in World War II, Eisenhower had never previously held a political office.

In 1962, she was 66 years old when lasting from October 16th - 28th, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union had been installing a nuclear missile base in Cuba. The United States established a blockade to stop the base from being completed. Through secret negotiations, war was averted: the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle their weapons in Cuba and the United States agreed to never invade Cuba and to dismantle weapons in Turkey and Italy.

In 1990, in the year of Carrie Capasso's passing, on April 24th, the Hubble telescope was launched into space after long delays due to the Challenger explosion. An optical flaw was found within weeks of launch but was fixed within three years. The discoveries made possible by the Hubble have contributed to scientists' understanding of the universe.