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Eliseo and Frank Jacoe had several occupations since their arrival in the U.S., with several of them being things that they did jointly. In the years just before Prohibition began in Colorado in 1916, they operated a saloon on Front Street. Then, for a short time after Prohibition started, they had the "Jacoe Bros. Pool Hall" on Main Street. In 1923, Eliseo and Annie Jacoe opened a grocery store one block to the south of their home, at 1001 Main. (Today, it is the main building of the Louisville Historical Museum.) It was one of Louisville's small neighborhood grocery stores where people regularly shopped or to which they called in delivery orders, but it also sold Italian foods. Like other store owners in Louisville, the Jacoes extended credit to their customers. This was especially important in a town like Louisville, where coal mining was seasonal and men were out of work during the summers. The following County Assessor photo shows the Jacoe Store in 1948: Clearly, it was a convenience for Eliseo and Annie Jacoe to be able to own their home just one block up from the location of their grocery store (which they rented). Many Louisville boys and a few girls worked for the store over the years. Delivery boys for the store got to drive Eliseo Jacoe's delivery truck. Members of the Rossi family who had grown up in the Tomeo House near the Jacoe Store in the 1920s and 1930s remembered Eliseo Jacoe as having been generous to the family, as their father had died and they had no regular source of income. Eliseo would give them day -old bread that hadn't sold in the store and allowed them the use of the yard behind the store in order to have more space for growing vegetables. In 2004, John Rossi told the Museum staff that he himself worked at the Jacoe Store in the 1930s and was paid with a cut of meat for a roast each week. Eliseo and Frank were also both talented musicians who were members of various bands. Eliseo Jacoe played in bands in the Denver -Louisville -Boulder area. According to the news item about his retirement, he had performed for period of a few years at the Tabor Grand Opera House and for the Denver municipal band. He was known as "the Professor" (and the family of his niece, Virginia Caranci, still refer to him as "Uncle Professor"). Parents paid him to teach such instruments as the trumpet, trombone, saxophone, and accordion to their children. Richard La 6