Sacramento County
Biographies
MARCO LUCICH
MARCO LUCICH.--A leader among those to whom Sacramento owes much for its excellent catering is Marco Lucich, the genial and popular proprietor of the Young American Restaurant, at 1026 Fourth Street, Sacramento. He was born in Jugo-Slavia, on September 8, 1878, and in 1894, or at the age of sixteen, he came to America. He could not speak a word of English when he reached Denver, Colo., and the first work he was able to secure was the washing of dishes in a restaurant. He then became a waiter, and finally a cook.
In 1906, he came to Sacramento, remaining for a short time, and then he went to San Francisco after the big fire. In the autumn of the same year he opened a restaurant at the corner of Second and Townsend Streets. He sold out, and in 1908 came back to Sacramento. On June 15 of that year he opened the Young American Restaurant, and on the 15th of June, 1923, he celebrated his fifteenth business anniversary here.
While in Colorado, in 1902, Mr. Lucich was married to Miss Katie German, a native of Austria, by whom he has had a family of five children, bearing the names of Vincent, Mary, Lucile, Marco, Jr., and Paul. Mr. Lucich has always been public-spirited and ever ready to help along movements of benefit to the community. Starting with a very small capital, he not only owns his own home, but valuable real estate in Sacramento, including an apartment house on O Street; he has great faith in the future of the capital city, as is evidenced by the fact that he has invested his earnings right here.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 768. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.