(left to right) Vince Mucci, Ed Kennedy, Frank Mucci

Pietro "Pete" Mucci came to America from Italy in 1947 as a 21-year-old man with a third-grade education, a strong work ethic and the shoe-making skills he learned as a young boy.

He had a shoe repair shop in Detroit for a decade before he opened Pete's Shoe Repair in downtown Plymouth, where he had a 37-year run until he sold it in 1995. He began in an old wooden building where the Penn Theatre now stands, but most of the years his shop was tucked away on Fleet Street.