Their ancestors lit the fuse — while today’s generation carries the torch.
The Souza family, who have owned and operated one of the nation’s top firework display companies, Pyro Spectaculars, since 1979, is booked and busy for America’s 250th birthday.
The prominent five-generation fireworks family from Southern California traces its roots to patriarch Manuel de Sousa, who immigrated from Portugal to the San Francisco Bay Area more than a century ago (the family later Americanized its surname) — and was considered a titan of the niche industry by the early 1900s.
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