[PRCo] Re: Interesting PATransit PCC Photos

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The Dunlaps have acquired numerous local restaurants with often disastrous
results...the Colony comes to mind.  The started two in my area; both
flopped.  Last time we were at LeMont, a couple years back, the food was
mediocre.  They should stick to roofing.

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Iannucci
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:08 PM
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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
>