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BroadStreetRandy t1_j7n1rnt wrote

Not sure if it’s still there, but when I was at Temple there was a pizza place at the corner of Oxford and Master. Maybe it was called pizanos or something like that?

We never could tell how they stayed open because the place was pretty big but always completely empty save for a few sketchy characters. The pizza wasn’t that good. The service was shitty and I remember vowing to not go back there. It was our running joke that it was a front for the Russian mob.

Like a year later, before ghost kitchens were a widely known thing, I got the shittiest breakfast delivered from an unknown place on Uber eats. It was that pizza shop.

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SanjiSasuke t1_j7n423n wrote

I'm so happy someone brought up Pizzano's! My immediate thought, as well.

My friends and I also theorized it was a front for the Russian mob (although I think we found out they weren't Russian?) My friends got wings there every week as a tradition, mostly because we were right there.

The food could actually vary in quality quite a bit. And not by menu item, but at random. Sometimes the pizza or fries would just be inexplicably better or worse.

They also had weird stuff like pinball machines and old quarter toy machines that would cycle in and out.

They are gone now, which is sad in a nostalgic way.

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