Pitt alumni look back on 60 years of The O
By Ashton Crawley, Senior Staff Writer
April 29, 2020
The shop, founded in May 1960, was famous for its hot dogs and gigantic stacks of fries that were comfort food to many generations of Pitt students.
Longtime manager confirms The O’s closure
By Rebecca Johnson and Jon Moss
April 18, 2020
The restaurant, located at the corner of South Bouquet Street and Forbes Avenue was opened by brothers Sydney and Morris Simon in 1960, and has been owned and run since the mid-2000s by Sydney’s children Terry Campasano and Bruce Simon.