Word: forcella
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...Much of the redistributed wealth turns up for sale in the Forcella district, a teeming complex of narrow streets known locally as "the Big PX." In Forcella, portable radios sell at half the normal price, and bargain hunters can pick up new and still-crated U.S. washing machines, refrigerators, stoves, dryers, electric razors, and about any brand of cigarettes known to man. Where does it all come from? A shopkeeper explains: "That's why it's so cheap. One shouldn...
...stripped clean, presumably by human chains of skindivers working at night. At the same time, the vicoli (back alleys) of Naples were ablaze with Oriental rugs hung out to dry and the narrow streets shaded by bolts of damp cloth stretched from window to win dow. The stalls of Forcella were glutted with wet Olivetti typewriters selling for as little...