Videos: Mrs. DeLallo
Mrs. DeLallo at the DeLallo Store
Madeleine DeLallo founded the store and the company with her husband George back in the 1950s. With the charm and spirit that grew DeLallo from a single itinerant “store in a truck” to its present size, Mrs. DeLallo describes her typical day. After turning 85, she cut back her time at the store to only 8...
Mrs. DeLallo: Rasing a Family
“Every day was an interesting day,” Mrs. DeLallo says about running the DeLallo store and raising her children at the same time. With wonderful old photos, she tells us how the children did their part and learned to do everything that needed to be done in the business. And they learned to love it!
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Mrs. DeLallo and "The Chairman of the Board"
With her characteristic good humor, Mrs. DeLallo tells the story of a boy named Jimmy who used to come to the store with his mom, and who then started selling produce by the road while he was still a kid. Mr. DeLallo invited him to come sell in front of the store, and then when winter came, they asked him in where it...
George & Madeleine: The Humble Beginnings of DeLallo
Mrs. DeLallo and her husband George started their business in an International truck, the “store on wheels.” Mr. DeLallo drove the truck out to the remote mining towns of southwestern Pennsylvania to sell authentic Italian food to the immigrant miners’ families. Mrs. DeLallo describes how happy their...
