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Trying to recall the name and correct spelling of a meat market in Oak Cliff. It would have been pronounced like CUE-TYE's. Perhaps CUE-TYE-YA.

Can anyone provide a better fix on who, where, and the correct spelling? Thanks.

When and where, Dennis? Oak Cliff is a very large area of Dallas. If you can provide a time frame and approx. location we may be able to find what you're searching for regarding the name.

Timeframe: 1950s and 1960s

Location: Not exactly sure. I think on Jefferson or Davis. I'll ask a cousin!

Got some more info from a cousin:

Mr. Leo Cutaia [spelling may not be 100% correct but close]

12th & Edgefield

Business was in a wood frame building.

ancestry.com has Leo V. Cutaia, Sr as a grocery proprietor living on Wilomet street with wife Louise and son Henry in 1930. Son Leo Cincent, jr. was born in 1931. There are other records for the Cutaias but nothing more on a "meat market."

CUTAIA is an
"Italian: habitational name from a place named Cuttaia."

Neat to think that Oak Cliff had an Italian market back in the 20s/30s.

I remember a Meat Market we use to use a lot (in the 50's & 60's) that was on Edgefield within a block or so of Berkely when I use to live on Elmwood Blvd........Do not remember one near 12th St......Bill Strouse

I looked on Historical Aerials and two houses, the 7-11, and the school occupied the four corners of 12th and Edgefield in 1955. The house on the Southeast corner was removed in the widening of 12th in the 1970s. The market was probably in that general area - just not on that intersection.

A cousin of mine whose memory of Cutaia's is good said the meat market was in back of a small grocery store. It was in a house-like structure but she didn't think the family lived there.