Steve B and Carlo Remember Dominick Pica's Tomato Pies

Steve B and Carlo Remember Dominick Pica's Tomato Pies.
461 Whittaker Avenue, The Burg

STEVEb said...
WOW.. what memories.... Pica's..I remember Dominick well, got
the best tomato pie in the world from there. This was the
place where we all stopped after the "social" dances at
Trenton Catholic.. and we could eat and still walk home with
a few cents in our pocket, I'm talking about 1953 to 1957 when
I was a student at TC, we were able to order a large pie (whick
made todays large pies seem like a Ritz cracker) for $1.20 and
have 10 cent sodas (my favorite was the Kerns orange, loved this
with tomato pie (we never called it pizza back then... LOL) During
the can't eat meat on Friday days, it was a pie from Dominic that
he used to wrap in newspaper for take out, no fancy boxes back
then, he would wrap, fold, tuck and when he was done... you could
have dropped the pie and it would never become undone...
and of course back then, the pies were baked in a wood burning oven.

Carlo said:

Hey Mack,I remember Dominck's Tomato Pie well.
Living around the corner on Emory Ave., it was my job to go
pick up a tomato pie and bring it home steaming hot wrapped in
newspaper. Back in the 40's it cost about 50 cents! In those
days the liquor store was "Shorty's" grocery store. I remember
going there with my mom and got a kick out of watching Shorty
(always wearing an old brown hat) quickly adding up the the
purchases on the back of a big brown paper bag. No calculators
back then! Thanks for the memories, Carlo