From their vantage point along Route 46, the Cerbo family has not only witnessed the exponential growth of their hometown, but supplied much of the material that transformed it into the largest municipality in Morris County. "We helped to build a lot of Parsippany," said Cathy Cerbo, who closed her family business, Cerbo's Lumber and Hardware, on Tuesday after 76 years and three generations.

From 1950 - two years after S. Cerbo and Sons opened to the public - to 1970, Parsippany-Troy Hills grew from about 15,000 residents to more than 55,000 and became the crossroads of North Jersey commerce, a home to Fortune 500 corporation headquarters in its many office complexes.