- Owner of the Hungry-I nightclub in San Francisco, which featured such up-and-coming stand-up comics in the 1950s and 1960s as Jonathan Winters, the Smothers Brothers and Lenny Bruce. It was a "must" place to be for stand-up comedians to try their material out on a hip audience.
- He was a popular fixture of San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. He founded one of the city's first sidewalk cafes, Enrico's on Broadway.
- At age 13 he went to San Francisco to study violin with the concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony.
- He was born into a farming family. He reportedly changed his first name to Enrico after opera singer Enrico Caruso.
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