Terry Delmonico's career at the Italian-family grocery store in Northeast began after he returned from an Army tour in Vietnam in the late 1960s. "My dad had an operation and asked if I could help in the store for a few months," recalled Delmonico, 69. "I left after about 45 years."

Terry and his cousin Bob Delmonico, 63, worked alongside their fathers, Louie and George, at the small corner store and Italian market in the Beltrami neighborhood. The store was founded in 1929 by their immigrant grandfather, Vincenzo Delmonico. He quit a job shoveling coal to buy a duplex on the corner for his family, and turned a small attached building into Delmonico's.

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