Albert Joseph Rigali (1882-1939) came from a large family in Holyoke, MA; his father was an Italian immigrant who ran a fruit market. Rigali became a bond and securities broker as a young man, but in 1905 he joined his older brother Louis (1880-1944) in a mining venture in Goldfield, NV. They were in Los Angeles by 1910, when they cofounded Pacific Home Builders, a construction business, with Allen Boyce (whom they’d met in Nevada) and Stephen Veselich. Rigali married the Fresno-born Florence Marie Calderwood (1891-1929) in 1915 and would have seven children with her. In 1920, he and Veselich struck out on their own – first selling bonds, then real estate. They christened Rigali and Veselich avenues in 1922. Rigali had a tough week in November 1929: Florence died (of peritonitis) just five days after his father. He raised the kids with help from Florence’s aunt until he himself was felled by rectal cancer; the kids then raised themselves.
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