Fiorella Brothers Sausage Company
Interior of Luigi Fiorella Meat Market
9th Street Market: Origins, Continuity, Change
Counter at Fiorella Brothers Sausage
Dan Fiorella at Fiorella Brothers Sausage
Fiorella Brothers Sausage storefront window
Italian businesses along 800 block of Christian Street
Trish Fiorella at Fiorella Brothers Sausage
Cash register at Fiorella Brothers Sausage
Counter at Fiorella Brothers Sausage
Dan Fiorella at Fiorella Brothers
Dan Fiorella at Fiorella Brothers Sausage
Fiorella Brothers Sausage Company
Menu board at Fiorella Brothers Sausage
Sausage making at Fiorella Brothers
Trish Fiorella at Fiorella Brothers Sausage
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This business was established in 1892 and boasts four generations of family ownership. Current proprietors Dan and Trish Fiorella still make their all-natural pork sausage fresh every day in the shop whose interior remains much the same as it did when it opened, down to the antique cash register and the scale built into the floor. Dan's father Louis E. Fiorella was a Philadelphia police officer who returned to the family store full-time upon retiring from the force in 1968. Louis turned the store over to his sons, Dan and Eddie, in 1980, but remained involved in with the business and in the South Philadelphia community until his death in 2008.
Fiorella Brothers Sausage Company has witnessed changes in the surrounding neighborhood spanning three centuries, and shoppers from all over the region, whether new residents of the neighborhood or old ones since moved to the suburbs, still flock there every Saturday for the Fiorella's fresh homemade pork sausages.
References
- Downey, Sally A. "L. Fiorella; Ran Sausage Shop." The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 2008.
- Fiorella, Daniel. 2008 Interview by Joan L. Saverino. Videotape recording. April 18. Philadelphia, PA.
