Joan and Russell Bruzzone remember Lafayette in the 1950s. They discuss their ongoing residential and commercial real estate activities which created housing for hundreds of Lafayette families and gave the town its major commercial shopping center. To create the Plaza Shopping Center in the 1960s the Bruzzones removed 200,000 cubic feet of dirt from what had been a 65 foot hill immediately adjacent to Mount Diablo Boulevard. They also remember early businesses that were located in their shopping center.
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