I know that there are at least two people in the blogosphere besides myself that remember Richies Pizza in Jerusalem, Jameel and Trep.
But I am curious. Who else remembers this place? Surely there are others.
Anyone?
How about Lalos or Champs?
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I worked there in 1977, what memories
Hi Richie,
So glad that you came by. Your place holds so many good memories for me. Thanks for that.
I remember Richie’s Pizza. I’m Richie! Still living in the Rova. Opened July ’73, closed Nov. ’90, right before Gulf War 1.I burnt out, but it was a great run, and I enjoyed it emensely. Still getting stopped in the street by old customers, still run into old workers in the weirdest places. “Long Stange Trip It’s Been.
Richie
We have a college student staying with us this summer. He’s an unpaid intern at Chex Panisse in Berkeley, CA. The other day he brought home a ginormous bag of pizza dough. Tonight I baked a pizza. I twirled it on 2 fists, just like Richie taught us. Summer of 1975. I was 18 and a college student myself. Work study at Hebrew University small animal lab by day. Richie’s by night. Many of us lived together in a crazy flat near the Machne Yehudah. What a summer. Everyone should be 18 like this!
Hi Richie. I’m Eddie. I worked for you beginning in January 1974. I was studying at Hebrew University. I still have fond memories and brag about working with you. I remember you would drive me back to the dorm on Har Sofim on Saturday nights after we closed and cleaned the shop. Thank you for the job
Tzipporah,
Richies was great.
Never heard of Richie’s. My favorite place was Abu Shanab’s, just inside the Jaffa Gate, but I don’t know if it’s still there, this was 10 years ago… you gotta love a restaurant named after facial hair.
PT,
I guess that means that old you are.
Yaak,
True.
RR,
It was one of them.
It was gone by my first trip here, I think, but I remember hearing about it from all my friends who spent a year in Israel. I could tell it was THE place to be!
Ahh, Richie’s! You could smell it from Rehov Yaffo!
How you get so big eating food of this kind?
Remember it I do.
Moze,
Apparently there are a few.
AT,
At least you made it.
Cosmic X,
Cool.
Jameel,
C’mon admit it, you were the guy dancing on the table. I saw the t-shirt at Mr. T’s.
I used to hit the Tea House.
Anon,
Good question.
Miriam,
Never made it there.
AMM,
I was gone then, but I knew a lot of people who were there.
WOW – you brought back some memories for me! Summer of ’86, my first true love, dancing at Lalo’s and the bulletin board at
Richie’s.
Not me.
But I remember Jerusalem Pizza in Manhattan.
Richie’s was the only pizza place in Yerushalayim at the time.
He himself was a strange character. He lived in the Rova. What ever happened to him?
I remember Lalos, even though I never stepped foot in there.
Instead, I would go to “The Tea House” (Beit HaTay) on Yoel Moshe Solomon St…and listen to Pink Floyd.
Richie’s would be later taken over by Apple pizza, which remains the reigning pizza place to this day in downtown Jerusalem.
I remember. I was THE Anglo hangout.
I went there once as a kid on a family trip, but when I came for my year it was gone.
You mean there are people who don’t remember Richie’s? [shock]. I was still a kid, visiting Israel, during its heyday, and my family was always reluctant to let me near the place for fear of the soldiers hanging out there, looking to pick up an unwary Anglo girl. (I looked significantly older than my chronological age.)