Celery City Stories

Celery City Stories episodes

July 21, 2022 Chinese food and pizza rolls helped Jeno Paulucci build the Heathrow community
Jeno Paulucci was the king of the packaged food business. He made hundreds of millions of dollars selling canned Chinese food, then frozen pizza rolls.
He sold those companies in the 1980s and jumped into the Florida real estate business.
This is the story of how he convinced a major company to build its national headquarters in an untested Seminole County office park named for a London airport. It changed the economic climate in Seminole County.

13 min
July 11, 2022 Jack's one-man war against the Japanese Navy
Disobeying orders should never be done on a whim. Sometimes those, you just need to go with your gut.
Many of the details for this story were taken from the following source:
"Twenty-Five Yards of War: The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men in World War II" by Ronald J. Drez
18 min
June 29, 2022 Trailer - Celery City Stories
Join host Dan Ping as he explores the incredible history of Sanford and Seminole County FL they didn’t teach in school.
www.CeleryCityStories.com
2 min

From the publisher's feed

Outlandish Florida Man stories get all the attention, but the Sunshine State’s history is just as entertaining.