In the back of Joe and Vince Lattanzio’s South Philly dry cleaning business, past the delicately beaded theater costumes, the leather pants and the rusted Maxwell House cans filled with 70 years worth of buttons, hang the most popular uniforms in the city — those of the Philadelphia Eagles.
For 18 years, the Eagles have had their uniforms cleaned and cared for at the business the Lattanzio brothers’ father started in 1947, Lattanzio’s Linn Cleaners, which moved from Linn Street to the 2100 block of South 15th Street in 1953.
As a native Philadelphian, Joe Lattanzio is proud to clean the Eagles uniforms, but he’s also aware of the fervency of this city’s fans.