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 TONY DELEO DIES
TONY Deleo, owner of Tony's Architectural Salvage, in Old Towne, Orange, California, died in May of multiple myeloma. He was 65. He came from Brooklyn and at 20 was a dealer in truck salvage in Queens, New York. After the snows of 1967 he and his family moved to California, where he continued in truck salvage until selling up in 1994 to create 'Anthony's Fine Antiques', an upmarket antiques store stocked with antiques from France and Argentina, but which eventually folded. Undeterred, he set up Tony's Architectural Salvage on the back of a $20,000 purchase of salvage from Oklahoma.
Tony DeLeo was a gruff but gregarious salvage man. Orange antiques dealers, Bill Kottler said, "He loved the wheeling and dealing part of the junk business. He loved the chase, the negotiating and playing around. And he was good at it." He sold Tony's Salvage in May. Mr. DeLeo had four daughters, and eight grandchildren. His wife, Regina, died three years ago.
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Date Created : 10 Sep 2007 12:23:13
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