QCP #003 | Marlon S Payumo, Sr. | Marlon S Payumo, Sr. | Life in San Francisco’s Most Famous Ice Cream Shop

Marlon S Payumo, Sr. is the general manager of Mitchell's Ice Cream Shop in San Francisco, CA. He arrived in the United States when he was twenty years old, and has been working there since 1988. Among the many things we touch upon in this conversation, he shares his hardships as a child growing up in the Philippines, his experiences in dealing with the transition of moving to another country, speaking a new language, hard work, and resilience.

 

 

NOTES | Mentions:

• SFGate Article - Mitchell's Ice Cream and Filipino Flavors
• Buckskin Revolution, Woniya Thibeault - Ancestral Skills Resource
• Alone, Television Reality Series
• Robert Walter Johnson
• Arthur Ashe
• Althea Gibson
• Levels of the Game, John McPhee
• Mitchell’s Ice Cream
• Silicon Valley
• Little Manila In Stockton
• Little Manila, Daly City
• San Francisco Forty Niners, Team of the 80’s
• St. Mary’s Rec Center
• How language shapes the way we think