[PRCo] Re: Interesting PATransit PCC Photos

[Dwight Long]

Bob

But isn't the later incarnation on Saw Mill Run Blvd. history also?  Went 
there once, but it did not have the charm of the one on Southern Ave.  I can 
remember lines a block or more long trying to get into that one, back in the 
early 60s.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Iannucci" <bob at rail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:28 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interesting PATransit PCC Photos


> Tom,
> Thank you so much for the pictures and the memories.   I especially
> appreciated "Southern Avenue at Tambellini's Restaurant" - that was my
> father's favorite restaurant and as kids we got to go there on special
> occasions.  To compare then-and-now, I've added a more recent photo 
> (thanks
> to Google) as an inset.  The restaurant has moved on from Southern Ave.
>
> For the few on this list who don't know, the Tambellini name was and is
> very well known in Pittsburgh and beyond, being associated with many
> restaurants in and around Pittsburgh (operated by various members of the
> family) in addition to a frozen-food business some time ago.  This
> particular restaurant was established by Louis Tambellini in 1946.  It
> moved to a much larger space on Route 51 in 1981.  Louis passed away in
> 1996.
>
> Bob
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