[PRCo] Re: Interesting PATransit PCC Photos

[Dwight Long]

Bob

Very true.  That explains why I could not find it (admittedly did not search 
really hard) last time I drove by on the Blvd., year or so ago.

Fond memories of eating at the original on Southern, though!

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Iannucci" <bob at rail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:08 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interesting PATransit PCC Photos


> Dwight,
> Since I live on the left coast these days, I don't know for certain.  A 
> web
> search reveals that Louis Tambellini's restaurant at 860 Saw Mill Run 
> Blvd.
> was sold to Anna and Ed Dunlap.  It appears that the Dunlaps owned LeMont
> and some other high profile Pittsburgh eateries.  If reports on the web 
> are
> accurate, they renamed it *Amici Ristorante* some time after they 
> purchased
> it  and subsequently closed it as a restaurant in 2009, turning it into a
> party center with the new name *Amici Banquet & Meeting Center.*
>
> From the reports, this building on Saw Mill Run Blvd was huge (600-700
> people), so it must have been quite a different experience than the
> restaurant we knew on Mt. Washington.
>
> http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2009/01/12/story3.html
> http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_640599.html
>
> But enough about restaurants.  Back to PRCo...
>
> Bob
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>
>
>