NATIONAL CITY, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Valerio's 1979 is a staple in San Diego’s Filipino community. It’s run by a family who credits the U.S. Navy for helping make their father’s American dream a reality.

The bakery's roots were planted well before 1979 in Cavite City, Philippines, where Victor Valerio Sr. and his wife, Milagros, opened Cavite City Bakery. One of their nine children, Jaime, enlisted in the U.S. Navy and carried on the tradition of baking fresh pandesal from scratch in National City.

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It was there that his parents joined him, and Valerio's City Bakery was born in 1979 on E. 8th St., serving the Filipino American community and beyond. Today, some 46 years later, it’s known as Valeri

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