passed away in 2013, the city lost a renaissance man of remarkable range. The Lomax siblings, from left: Sara Lomax-Reese, Claire, W. and Margaret, set the standard for their children as far as hard work and devotion to Philadelphia.” in the press: Lizanne was one of the first female athletes ever to be featured in Sports Illustrated she appeared in a 1955 issue as a Penn hockey player.
Taking up the legacy: the Le Vines (Grace’s sister Lizanne’s family), who have linked up with another local power clan-Lizanne’s son Chris married Victoria McNeil, of the Tylenol family (see page 181).
And there’s politics: Jack was a Democratic city chairman who just barely lost the 1935 mayoral election Kell was a City Councilman and member of the Fairmount Park Commission. (known as Jack), was a heralded competitive rower, nabbing three Olympic gold medals his wife, Margaret, was the first coach for women’s athletics at Penn their son, John Jr. There’s the athletic domination: Her father, John B.
PROSECUTOR PRINCESS GRACE KELLY SHOES MOVIE
There’s the glitz, of course: Kelly was an Oscar-winning movie star who brought the world’s attention-and much-needed sparkle-to the city her uncle, Walter, was a vaudeville star her other uncle, George, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. shared roots: Former mayor Wilson Goode (see page 181), also the son of a tenant farmer, grew up one town over from Will’s North Carolina hometown.Įven if Grace Kelly hadn’t become a princess, her extended family would still be considered Philly royalty. The family is also known for its civic, arts and philanthropic engagement. (Her cousin Perry is CFO.) Today, Wilco is one of the only African-American-owned cable companies in the country, and it’s still serving low-income clients - but its partners include Comcast and the PHA, and its impact hasn’t just grown it’s exploded, as its affordable wireless Internet access, digital literacy programs and even security systems bridge the city’s digital divide. “He was providing cable to the poor and black neighborhoods nobody else would go into,” says daughter Brigitte Daniel Corbin, Wilco’s executive vice president. Daniel settled in Philly after a stint in the Army, went to trade school, then worked in electronics for two decades before starting his own company in 1977, with an eye toward the city’s underserved communities. (Well, one of the things.) The son of a North Carolina sharecropper, Will F. In Comcast City, it’s hard to imagine another cable company having real impact, but that’s what makes the Daniel family and their business, Wilco Electronic Systems, Inc., so remarkable. family that works together: “Food is in our blood,” says Emilio. Our customers told us about these unique places, so we took a look at what they were doing and decided to see if we could do it better.” They’ve done just that, expanding beyond the Italian Market to five locations serving food lovers from the Main Line to Rittenhouse Square, and beyond via their online store. They would talk to us about where they’d been, and we started to take trips up to New York.
We had the same customers come in every day, and we would ask them what they were interested in. “The City of Philadelphia told us it was ready for this. “We didn’t say, ‘The City of Philadelphia is ready for this,’” he says. into the city’s premier specialty food retailer lies with the customers themselves. Their grandparents and other relatives helped them get off the ground, but according to Emilio, responsibility for the transformation of Di Bruno Bros. and his cousins Billy and Emilio decided instead to take the business to the next level. Their grandsons had other ideas Bill Mignucci Jr. In 1990, Italian immigrants Danny and Joe Di Bruno were ready to sell the grocery-turned-cheese-emporium they’d founded on 9th Street in 1939. and Emilio Mignucci | Photograph by Colin Lenton