Tony Danza Learns About His Grandfather's Harsh Working Conditions | Finding Your Roots
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- čas přidán 9. 02. 2022
- Tony Danza wells up with emotion while learning about his grandfather's grueling existence working as a tinner after migrating to America in 1909.
Watch the full episode at: www.pbs.org/video/fighters/
#FindingYourRoots airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on PBS. In the February 8th episode, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the ancestral fighting spirit of entertainers Terry Crews and Tony Danza.
My childhood just came flooding towards me seeing Tony Danza. By far my favourite childhood sitcom of all time. It got me through my loneliest years.
Which one? Taxi, or Who's the Boss?
I’m guessing who’s the boss?
I was in love with Tony Danza when i was a kid . Now ,at my 40's i realize how good my criteria was ...!
Tony Danza is a living Legend and a genuine beautiful human being !
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Tony has always touched my heart since I was a kid. He was an awesome tv dad who's overlooked.
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Tony Danza is mad underrated actor.
One of the best shows on TV hosted by a great professor.
Tony has such a tender heart. He also showed his emotional heart in the show he did called Teach.
I met Tony Danza when I worked as a housekeeper at The Sheraton Hotel in 2003 he was getting off the elevator when me and my co-worker met him he was So Handsome very nice and down to earth! It's cool to see people that I grew up watching on TV!He is Definitely one of the Nicest celebrities that I ever met 🥰❤️❤️❤️
My pleasure 😅
I grew up in an Italian-American household and I so appreciate that Mr. danza embraces his....even on Whos The Boss....loved the episodes when he went back to the "old" neighborhood.... especially the one where Angela dreams that she's a Bronx girl and her and Tony are married with children living there...priceless episode! 🇮🇹
Tony Danza still looks good!
I love Tony Danza.....I'm Black but when I was a kid he always felt like my imaginary Italian TV Dad...LOL
You may have common ancestors, and that feeling may be the call of the blood.
He was my TV Dad as well. It was such a fabulous show.
I'm as white as snow, and growing up in the 90s I had that same feeling with uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air :)
@@Jayce_Alexander You too may share common ancestors with the actor.
Oh yea hahaha
Why it touches people so much. It's cuz you start to realize how easy you have it. And the reason why you have it easy. Is because you have ancestors that busted ass in the horrible conditions there was back in the day. And you are the beneficiary. That's why it's so profound. To find out where you come from. And how they lived. 80 years ago life is a struggle. For 90% of all Americans
I love this man he is such a lovely actor❤
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Dr. Gates chosen field is so rewarding to him and to those he serves. I really believe that if more people looked to their ancestors the world would be a much better place. I think due to the fact you suddenly become aware who you are and came from a long line of humans, a link in the chain as it were. We each have historical significance regardless of our Social position or wealth. Once you become aware you are part of a Genetic chain, I think it makes you want to do something for those who will come after you.
I love Tony Danza. ❤️
Even bigger crush on Tony Danza after watching it. Terry recalling his childhood was poignant. Seeing men so in touch with their emotions and willing to express them is lovely
Hey canonsburg was and is amazing...my ancestors came from Italy and Ireland and settled in canonsburg, worked their asses off, and to this day most of our huge family is still in canonsburg. Best 4th of July parade ever!
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This was an amazing episode love both Terry crews and Tony Danza
I have not seen Tony in such a long time. Watched his sitcom when I came to America and it was wonderful. Still have those memories inside me and wish today was like that.
Tony,You have a beautiful soul!
Dr. Gates is a talented custodian of story.
Toni!!!! You’re still the boss 😍
😅😅 You think so?
Thank you Dr Gates for bring these story alive for us. It makes us who are also doing our DNA to find out where we came from envious in a good way.
Since a little girl I always asked questions about where our family came from. One cousin and I started dong research back in the 70’s. She did much more work than I and documented our Mayflower descent! Most of the other English ancestors trickled in to American in 1630’s and on. Then went waaaay back in England to the Plantagenets! But what really still moves me is their pure courage to face the challenges of coming to a country not knowing what or who they would be facing. I never went anywhere and had to build the roof over my head and plant my own food! Yet reading first hand accounts of the hardships and the pure faith they maintained made me so proud and grateful.
I encourage everyone to begin your search. You could be changed forever or certainly end up in awe and appreciation for your ancestors struggles and triumphs that end with you. Mr. Danza was never very interested because he didn’t think it was important to who he is now. Watching his awakening and emotions was your answer to what happens when you learn your own history.
Happy hunting!
@Tony Danza your grandparents come from my town Benevento Italy
Love ❤️ Tony
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One of my inspirations!
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Tony, Your relative that immigrated to the US was improving his life and that of his family. Hard as it might have been, it must have been better than where he came from. Years back I took my grandson to Amador County in northern CA and we took every mine and cave tour that we could find. On one tour, the guide went into great detail about the supposed unbearable working conditions in the mines. I told the guide that it wasn’t that bad. A couple of decades before, I took my then best friend to Amador County for a vacation. My friend was born and raised in Vitorio Venato in northern Italy. We strolled through a very old (for CA) cemetery and my friend was astonished that many of the names came from northern Italy. I told the guide that people from there had come to the mines to get a foothold in the US and had written back to friends and relatives to explain about the jobs and those friends and relatives came to the mines and again wrote home with yet more people coming for work in the mines. It was BETTER than northern Italy at that time. They were improving their lives and God Bless them for doing so!
Tony has had great success. He is worth millions. So for him to imagine his grandfather working a menial job to survive bring s up emotions. My grandparents came from Sicily the same time his grandfather came to America. They did menial labor. My father did menial labor at a step above his father. And I do less physical work for an average salary. When i think of my grandfather sweating as a cook it does not pull at my heart strings, because I have not had that much success in America. Im not blaming anyone. Im just stating a fact.
felicitaciones. Te vez ESPECTACULAR. SIEMPRE TU CARISMA TU AMABILIDAD. MI FAMILIA VIMOS TUS SERIES. QUE RECUERDOS TAN BELLOS. CUÍDATE MUCHO TE QUEREMOS. FAMILIA MANCILLA. DESDE GUATEMALA 🇬🇹. AMERICA CENTRAL.
Yooooh Tony Strong 💪💪💪💪💪⭐⭐⭐👍♥️♥️♥️
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I like his hair
He forgot to ask "Tiner dan what, a piece of spaghetti??"
Tony danza looks great and should be casted to play a old Sicilian mob boss in a flim
looks great? In what way?
1:10 😱😱 his finger! What happened??
Tony Danza’s real name is Anthony Salvatore Iadanza
You know I just realize out of all the celebrities that appeared on this show I don't believe there's ever been a wrestler to appear on the show.
6 days a week 10hour days...I've been doing that for 25 years. Only celebrities get status i guess
My brother works longer hours than that and no matter what he will keep doing it because he loves the money.
Hmm that’s different
I'm from Canonsburg, know people that proudly worked in those mills and I think they were hard workers and proud workers You make them sound like destitute lowlifes. So disappointing
What, no slavery, Holocaust, or Potato Famine for this guest? I’m surprised they aired it
imagine what enslaved Africans went through who did not come here by choice and what their descendants still endure!
From can to can't. They would have laughed at a 10 hour work day. 16 hour work days wouldn't have been uncommon for a slave.
nice "whataboutism"
That is not what the video is about. He is not responsible for anything that happened to those people.
A lot to go through #GTFOH What about those who came in the hull of a slave ship as human cargo and are still catching hell !
I hear that and I'm imagining Tony's not comparing here, he's probably just overcome to learn about an ancestor he didn't know anything about. It's an emotional experience for anyone. Obviously what his immigrant ancestor is nothing compared to enslavement but I think it's still valid to emotionally connect to any toil an ancestor went through
@@yazoshaughnessy7429 I’m talking facts over feelings . Everyone that’s come to Dam Erica has come over broke and have all made money of the backs of the enslaved African men and women . The richest immigrant to America is the Queens grandson Prince Harry. Go figure that one out . Everyone else arrived dirt poor and was able to ascend the greasy pole . I have nothing again Tony Danza, I’m just stating cold facts !
@@bobcosmic does that invalidate his ancestors experience?
@@GigglingHamster No it does not but they didn’t come to Dam Erica in chains in the hull of a stinking slave ship as human cargo . When Italians arrived in Dam Erica they were automatically put above African Americans and within 60 years what were they doing . They were destroying the Black neighbourhoods, with heron . It doesn’t invalidate all those that were taken from Africa either does it !
@@bobcosmic you're talking about facts but the video is about feelings lol
his grandad work 6 days a week 10 hour days oooohhh 👻 sounds unimaginable nowadays lol
So did my father...Old school work ethics. 10 hours a day today ain't like 10 hours a day back then.
@@MrCeora It ain't like 10 hours a day back then if you are not doing it. 10 hours a days is still 10 hours a day. What fairyland are you living in?
Many people do that everyday. It is only hard to imagine if you have no imagination or if you choose not to think about it these days.
@@Michelle-pn9xt Let's see, few electric tools if any,no air conditioning, no unionized coffee, bathroom, or lunch breaks, microwaves,
food delivery on your job no OSHA, no headphones and listening to your music on the job or smartphones to look at every few minutes.
Wait, and I've barely even started youngster, there's much more. Compared to back then, THIS today is a fairyland...
It's not the 70's, Tony. See a barber asap.
Tony you still look young. Color your hair buddy
i love the gray
Young? Really?
Try asking Tony Danza about his appearance with Marilyn Chambers in the 1984 porn flick "Insatiable 2"......not judging- just sayin.....he plays a "cop"...they cut his face out of the scene but his voice is unmistakable.....I was a strip club DJ for nearly 20 yrs in L.A./Hollywood and worked directly with many porn stars(got LOTS of pictures/proof) and heard it on good authority that Tony was in that cast....just a side note on what they won't tell you on Entertainment Tonight...or Finding Your Roots....Tony's "Roots" are inside of Marilyn Chambers......Wayne Maher - Auburn, Wa.(State).......
So basically what you're saying is, you really think it's him but you don't actually know.
he was on stern and said its not true
Cynical people trying to throw dirt.
For most of my life, I knew my father was Italian and my mother said she was German but wasn't sure of it. Then I had my DNA tested and treated myself to a subscription to Ancestry.com. The only things I did know for sure about my family was that both sides of my family were poor. My dad's family struggled--grandpa was a tailor and my grandmother was a seamstress. My mother's family came to this country as part of the Anabaptist movement and were farmers. They belonged to the Church of the brethren, as well as the Drunkards. Both religions were abolitionists and no one in my family ever owned a slave or even a bond servant--much to my relief. But there were also some surprises. On the pie chart that gave me a breakdown of race/ethnicity I discovered that my father had Greek, North African, Portuguese, Spanish and Jewish ancestors. My mother's family was Irish, Scottish, Irish, Serbian, Polish, Jewish and German. I'm learning new things about both sides of my family all the time and the one thing I have learned is that I am a living testament to the American Melting Pot. I am in awe of how many different ethnicities and races I can claim.
6 days a week for 10 hours a day is gentle by old Italian standards.