![]() ![]() Tootsie, who as a child had played the piano before Bonci and Caruso, lived into her 90s and worked hard at keeping the Leoncavallo going for another fifty years. ![]() The façade we see today dates from that 1918 renovation. In 1918, they purchased 254 S 12th next door and joined the two buildings together, see ad, below. I ended with the death of chef Francesco Basta, who had opened an Italian restaurant there called “The Leoncavallo” in 1912.Īccording to Frank Basta’s great-great granddaughter, Valerie, who lives in New Jersey, it was Frank’s daughter, Adelina Basta Caporale, known as “Tootsie,” and her husband Adalberto Caporale, along with the children’s African-American nanny, Margaret, who carried on the operation after Frank’s death in 1917. Last time, I began the story of the building site at 254-6 S 12th St., home to Icandy today.
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