Morgan Street Seafood celebrates 50 years in business
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Three generations of Alegrias at the Morgan Seafood Company at Brownlee and Morgan include 12-year-old Corina Alegria, Marcela Alegria and Charlie Alegria.
CORPUS CHRISTI ? The smell of shrimp, crabs and fish doesn’t make Charlie Alegria wince. He loves everything about the products he sells and the customers who buy them, just as his father did.
The 54-year-old owner of Morgan Street Seafood Market has spent most of his life in and around that fish market, which his father opened in 1960 as Seven Seas Fish Market. This Valentine’s Day, he celebrates 50 years in business.
“The thing I remember most about him was his love of the business and his enthusiasm in doing something he really enjoyed,” said Alegria, whose father, Richard, who died in 1994. “He took a lot of pride in doing the job right.”
Alegria began running the business after his father’s death and changed the location and name to Morgan Street Seafood Market. Following in t