Joseph Cala, an American Salerno's who is the new No. 1 Salernitana
who was born in the wrong country, Joseph Cala, aka Joseph Calà, a native of San Cataldo, had understood from a kid. "I saw too much ignorance around me, "recalls today in typical spoken" bruccolina. He did not understand why everything in Sicily it was "difficult" to have the water from the taps, a certificate, the work should be a normal thing ... "And then I did not understand why people went below to politicians, the recommendation to work ... Too much ignorance ".
Already nine years, as he himself points out, was thinking of running away from San Cataldo, where he was born. At home, the father of mesata worker, barely enough to not need to miss the other five children. Who could satisfy the great desire to escape the little Joseph? Already in nine years, plans his life: put part of a nest egg and then run away. In New York. A
take the lead in America was New Don Totò, the bartender of the main street in San Cataldo, where Joseph is "employed" as a waiter. "Ten years, likes to tell, I could do everything: coffee, ice cream, pizza ...". A very good person, Don Totò.
who treats him like a son. He had been in America, in New York had made his fortune with the pizzeria and had also become a famous singer, TV contested by New Yorkers. "While in San Cataldo despised him," Joseph Cala gloss. Don Totò's always said to have made a big mistake to return to Sicily, to satisfy the nostalgia of his wife sancataldese.
"Get out of this bitter earth. Here there are only zeros, "I repeated all the time. And even his customers, he called the way: zeros, unnecessary. Who lived in a country "third world" Joseph recalled today - every time he understood that the groups came Italian - Americans. They
, never asking, how sancataldesi, before you order, how much? And well never mind prices, always left good tips. So much so that in four years, in his book bearer, had collected two million and a half. That was money in '73. It was in that year, only thirteen years old, who cut the rope.
He left San Cataldo in an early morning in summer. With the bus Alavit to Caltanissetta, and then hitch-even beyond the Straits. The facilities, to calm, she said she was going to Taormina. While the friends who laughed with the butt of consumer jokes and backpack, he predicted: "I'm going to Paris and later in New York. Wait for me when I come back in twenty years. " And so it was. In Paris, helped also fortunate: thanks to a misunderstanding - he was told to come back, but he knew who had hired - he ended up as assistant waiter at Chez Maxim, the best restaurant in the world. Where was home to the likes of Onassis, Rockefeller, Agnelli, Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti.
From Maxim, six hundred covered parking spaces and a turnover in nine zeros, the "Gastronomic Mecca" of the rich and famous of the globe, Joseph Cala there remains three years: the time to learn to do well in sauces, to know the cuisine, but also learn the ABC of management. Although his dream was always the promised land of America.
try to get the first time in '74, yet fourteen, on a flight from Paris to New York. But when he revealed that he wanted to stay there forever, the police sent him to France. Two years later, he tried again. But this time, there was clever: "I left Paris with a ticket to Toronto via New York. And I said to the police who stayed in New York only a couple of hours. " The
went well. Instead of continuing the flight to Canada, went somewhere else: in San Francisco, California. Thus begins, sixteen years, the American adventure of Giuseppe Calà in the States. Perhaps few people know the true story of Scrooge Sicilian-American, now forty years old (in 2000) and ultramiliardario, who dreamed as a kid America.
And who made his fortune in the States managing and implementing major luxury hotels in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Hawaii and the Bahamas. "In America it was something else," recalls Joseph spaparazzato under a gazebo Bisiti light district, a guest of Cataldo and fellow Riggs, owner of "Molino St. Joseph" at the gates of the capital.
"Everything was easy: two hours to get the license, which costs ten thousand lire. Want a car? With a hundred thousand pounds, the new find. The problem in America is not to find work, but where I work. The opportunities are endless. " Now, forty years, Joseph Cala, is back again in Sicily.
But Scrooge and with the dollars in your pocket. Is beating the length and breadth of the island, percombinare business, buying companies and then expand his little "empire" staff: CCA, Cove Corporation America.
The U.S. Company with lots of on site Internet (www.calacorporation.com), una capacità di spesa di cinquemila miliardi, e società sparse in tutto il globo con azioni quotate a Wall Streat, la Borsa di New York. E’ un uomo d’affari sempre in movimento, oggi mister Joseph Cala, trascorre il tempo a spostarsi da una parte all’altra del mondo: Honululu, Tokio, San Francisco, Sudamerica. Ed ultimamente, ha aggiunto pure la Sicilia: a San Cataldo, il paese d’origine per stare un po’ in famiglia con genitori e fratelli, e soprattutto Catania.
Dove nei giorni scorsi, dopo quattro mesi di trattative con gli emissari del ministero dell’industria ed il prefetto Santoro, ha messo a segno il primo affare della stagione: l’acquisto Costanzo former company, six hundred employees and contracts in the construction industry.
"But they are quite slow," he lets slip Joseph. " It 's a month I'm here. And I'm tired. It is not just time that is lost - the reasons Scrooge Sicilian American - but an opportunity lost elsewhere. "
To combat the scourge of unemployment at the root, Joseph Cala, its good recipe, we would have made in the USA: focus as do the company overseas, only on a city make it bigger and more beautiful. The ideal city, he found it: the town of Etna. Catania, like Las Vegas.
That from
suburb of sixty souls, has become a metropolis of two million people - says Mr. Cala - certainly not for the casinos. " The City of Mount Etna, like Los Angeles. Joseph's dream is to completely change the face of the town of Etna in ten years. To make it truly "new" Milan of the south. It begins, planting the first underwater hotel underwater world.
A block to seventy per cent iron and glass, built in the shipyard for 87% of Americans with funding from the U.S. government, which was completed at the end of 2002. The first hotel to 95% below the sea, has 250 rooms, Water Park, and a small shopping center in front, said Joseph Cala. It will be transhipped by sea, and immersed under water in front of the port. "Two years ago - says the owner of the CCA - we got the permission of the Harbour.
This is a hotel - insurance - which does not involve any environmental impact: underwater, will become like a coral and the fish will swim around us! "The article, is implanted in more than a couple of days. No problem, in short. All easy: the only trouble, if the piece is built on the west coast of the U.S., if anything, will be crossing the Panama canal. Details.
to make "bath" hotels, Joseph Cala has already tried: it has made a couple in Hawaii, the Grand Wailea and Maui, and another in the Bahamas, Atlantis. All three underwater for only 15%. Eleven million tourists a year - the owner of Cala Corporation estimates that come from all over the world.
Atlantis, three thousand rooms, which cost five thousand billion, built a tunnel between two rocks, a hundred feet under the sea "where swimming sharks, dolphins, sharks, whales. A dream! Who comes, there does not want to leave. " Those three "dreams" lately, bought them a South African hotel company. "In the future, there are two places in cui il turismo andrà forte: lo spazio e sotto il mare” commenta serafico Joseph Cala.
“Nello spazio, ancora non posso. Sotto il mare, invece…” Alberghi sott’acqua, la Cala Corporation, ne ha in programma una quarantina. Che andranno tutti a finire – costo cadauno 200 miliardi – dentro i mari e gli oceani di tutto il mondo: Bahamas, Hawaii, Bermuda. L’albergo sott’acqua, ma anche il più grande Centro Congressi del mondo, sogna mister Calà per Catania.
Un’altra città megagalattica, con 33 grattacieli per gli uffici, 150 mila camere d’albergo, un mega centro commerciale di 500 mila metri quadrati, alberghi grandiosi, tre campi da Golf, con duemila case intorno, ed altri duecentomila, trecentomila appartamenti. “Il comune – chiosa Joseph Cala – deve investire solo nel centro congressi e basta. Il resto saranno tutti soldi privati. Nostri e delle altre compagnie.
Il sindaco Scapagnini? E’ molto felice. Mi ha fatto un’ottima impressione. Veniva spesso anche nei miei ristoranti, quando insegnava all’università di San Francisco”. Per realizzare la “Catania due”, dovrebbero essere impiegate le maestranze dell’ex colosso Costanzo, adesso passate alla Cca. Che nei prossimi anni – preannuncia Cala – assumerà altri 4400 lavoratori”. Se la città di Catania accetta la mia proposta – è sicuro mister Cala – la Sicilia, risolverà il problema della disoccupazione.
La ricetta è “semplice” ovviamente: per lo sviluppo dell’economia di un paese, bisogna ospitare i grandi congressi. Tutto qui. Per Catania, Joseph Cala, prevede in dieci anni, un milione e mezzo di nuovi posti di lavoro. Adesso dal Comune e dal sindaco Scapagnini, Mister Cala, attende solo l’okay per l’approvazione del piano di sviluppo. “Abbiamo bisogno solamente di mille ettari!” dice. “E poi, bum: faremo tanti grattacieli come a Las Vegas, Los Angeles.
Catania è bellissima. C’è l’Etna, il mare. Non è grigia come Amburgo, Frankfurt or Milan. In Rome, Venice and Florence - thinks the owner of the CCA - do not want to hear host conferences. Catania is the place! If you build the largest conference center in the world - the Scrooge Sicilian American dream - then all the major hotels arrive. Because the money to the hotels, do not take them some sun and beach. But the major conferences. E 'already done so in Las Vegas, Los Angeles .... "
spoken and sung BRUCULINO ALL'ARECHI SALERNO .....
