Joe Carcione

Joseph W. Carcione (October 31 1914 – August 2 1988) was a consumer advocate known as "The Green Grocer."

Carcione owned and operated a produce import/export business in South San Francisco at the Golden Gate Produce Terminal II. He hosted short television bits offering advice in the world of produce, and wrote a newspaper column and two books on the same subject.

Carcione married Madeleine Ahern in 1937. They had three children. He died of intestinal cancer at Peninsula Hospital in Far Rockaway, New York, in 1988.

His grandson, Joe Carcione III, owned and operated Home Field Advantage, a baseball card store in Menlo Park, California.

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* [http://www.bayarearadio.org/stn_documents/kcbs_joe-carcione_bio_1978.shtml| Joe Carcione Biography at Bay Area Radio Museum]