The couple’s three children all grew up with the shop on Ocean Avenue, working and learning some part of the shoe-repair business. The couple opened several shops in the area, gradually moving south and coming to rest in 1982 in Laguna Beach, which they felt would be perfect to raise their family. Daniele and Tom hit it off and were married in 1975. Their daily outings included a stop at Tom’s store. Daniele Graffio, a French citizen and a native of Algeria, speaks French, Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish, as well as English.ĭaniele originally came to the United States as a caretaker for a woman living just up the street from Tom’s Santa Monica shop. Graffio met his wife, Daniele, in 1972, when he started his own shop in Santa Monica. They were really surprised at first – ‘How is it this white guy is speaking our language?’” “I speak a few obscure African tribal languages, and there’s a couple of guys who come in and we talk to each other. “This is Laguna Beach, so there are a lot of people from all over,” Graffio said. Laguna shop speaks the language of shoe repair – Orange County Register
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