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Resource Number: 5BL 11303 Temporary Resource Number: 157508414005 The Damelia children consisted of Joseph (1898-1955); Susie (Ferarese) (1909-2007); Elizabeth (Varra) (1913- 2001); Archie Jr. (1915-2002); Angelo (1917-1982); Mary (Jordinelli, Domenico, Mudrock) (1919-1995); and Alphonse (1922-2011). Angelo Damelia and Alphonse Damelia served in the US Navy during World War II. The Louisville Historical Museum's World War II film showing Louisville servicemen and women while they were home on leave includes scenes with Angelo, Alphonse, and Mary Damelia, and their mother, Giovina Damelia. The scene with Angelo, Mary, and their mother is strongly believed to have been filmed in front of 820 Jefferson. Archie Damelia Sr. worked as a miner in Louisville, as did his sons at different times. Directories indicate that Archie Sr. also had a dairy or worked at a dairy. Beginning in the 1930s, son Joseph Damelia had a service station located at the northwest corner of Pine and Front at 701 Front (the current location of Louisville Gas & Grocery). It was called the Damelia Service Station. He also owned and operated the White Front Inn (5BL8025) next to the service station, where today Henry's Bar & Grill is located at 935 Pine Street. His sister, Mary, waitressed at the White Front Inn. Joseph continued to live at 820 Jefferson and appears to have never married. The 1956 directory shows that Alphonse Damelia took over the Damelia Service Station after Joseph's death in 1955, and he also resided at 820 Jefferson at that time. The service station and the White Front Inn left the ownership of the Damelia family in 1959, to be taken over by Joseph and Helen Campana who at one time lived very close by to the Damelia family at 713 Spruce (5BL11319) in Jefferson Place. By the late 1950s, Alphonse became an employee of Dow Chemical and lived at 820 Jefferson with his wife, Marie. Directory evidence shows that Alphonse Damelia continued to reside at 820 Jefferson into the 1980s. After at least 63 years of ownership by members of the Damelia family, Alphonse Damelia sold 820 Jefferson in 1984 to Jean and Louise Marchand, who lived in the house in the 1980s. In 1988, they conveyed it to the current owner, Kristi Borgstrom. Mary Damelia is also associated with 920 Jefferson (5BL11309), one block away in the Jefferson Place subdivision. Other addresses found for 820 Jefferson, under Louisville's old address system, were 321 Jefferson and 325 Jefferson. In 1940, a year when addresses were in a period of transition between the old system and the new system, the address was given as 828 Jefferson. 36. Sources of information: Boulder County "Real Estate Appraisal Card — Urban Master," on file at the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's Office and Assessor's Office public records, accessed through http://recorder.bouldercounty.org. Directories of Louisville residents and businesses on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. Census records and other records accessed through www.ancestry.com Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Colorado, 1909. Methodist Church Parish Map of Louisville, Colorado, circa 1923-25. Sanborn Insurance Maps for Louisville, Colorado, 1893, 1900, and 1908. "Our Boys and Girls in the Armed Forces, 1943-44," color film made by L.C. Graves in the collection of the Louisville Historical Museum. Archival materials on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. Interview conducted by Jefferson Historical Museum Coordinator Bridget Bacon: Janice Jordinelli Tesone and Sharon Varra Boden, June 4, 2009. 5