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1. Bob Powers says:

   November 25, 2023 at 7:10 am

   I had expected to see D’Elia’s Grinders on this list. but that place did not open until 1955. Gay and Larry’s was a West Riverside (Rubidoux) institution until it closed in 2004. Sadly I never ate there before the closure. Pitruzella’s building is still there on W. La Cadena alongside the 215 freeway. I knew it as “Pitruzelli’s”. It’s had several lives since then…as a Mexican place and a banquet facility and perhaps as a Mediterranean restaurant. At one time the head chef at California Baptist University was a Pitruzelli. The El Sarape on Magnolia held on for decades but closed a couple of years ago.

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