I never had pizza at Vulcanias, but Rallos is where I learned to eat pizza at all! I do remember another pizzaria on Orange Street next to the Tivoli, that came a little later, and of course Tommy's on 11th Street at Fourth Avenue. I wonder how many Youth Group outings I went on to Rallos???????

I seem to remember the Pizza Place next to the Tivoli as Mario's.
A slice and a Pepsi cost a quarter.

Many's the night that Steve Matlaga, Jane Ann Layland, Judy Massenzio and I would go down to Rallo's after - I dunno - maybe CYO? Judy ordered scungilli once, and I had no idea what the heck she was eating (being an ignorant little Irish girl from East Orange). Just last summer Steve and I reminisced about the night we wrote our "lives" down on napkins. Well, it wasn't really our autobiographies, just some dreamy, goofy, hard to understand ramblings about where we were at that stage in our lives. Steve, you signed yours, "An empty blackboard on a stormy sea." I still have it. My own misguided prose reads like something from Sylvia Plath. we were pretty melodramatic...

Many's the night that Steve Matlaga, Jane Ann Layland, Judy Massenzio and I would go down to Rallo's after - I dunno - maybe CYO? Judy ordered scungilli once, and I had no idea what the heck she was eating (being an ignorant little Irish girl from East Orange). Just last summer Steve and I reminisced about the night we wrote our "lives" down on napkins. Well, it wasn't really our autobiographies, just some dreamy, goofy, hard to understand ramblings about where we were at that stage in our lives. Steve, you signed yours, "An empty blackboard on a stormy sea." I still have it. My own misguided prose reads like something from Sylvia Plath. we were pretty melodramatic...

Yeah, I think all adolescents are melodramatic. When I was in high school I was convinced I was the next Ernest Hemingway. I eventually made it to Spain, but never got to Pamplona to run with the Bulls, though. As I got older I got less goofy -- I think. Some might disagree.

And I never did write a best selling novel. But you all know that already.

Jeff-
I think the pizza place next to the Tivoli was Jerry's and later changed the name to Mario's (or in vice/versa order). I do remember the $.25 tab and listening to Elvis on the J-Box.

Bob -
You probably don't remember this but they had a telephone booth in the back of the store and I can remember you in the phone booth trying to place a call to the white house.
If memory serves me correctly, I believe you got thru to a White House Operator but alas, they wouldn't put you thru to the President.
That was probably a good decision.