My love affair with my hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, continues (in watercolor).
Here we have the famous Spirito's Restaurant which, sadly, no longer exists.
I'm still having a hard time accepting that.
How do you say goodbye to the place you've been going to since the 1960s?
The place you went for every special event growing up or just because you wanted the best Italian food (even though they didn't serve butter with the bread)?
The place you drove to with your girlfriends when you first got your license, age 17, and pushed our luck when we ordered "Bacardi and Coke" because we didn't know what else to order and they actually served us?
To never again sit in one of their wooden booths with their formica tabletops and the low lit wall sconces at every table?
Oh, the bittersweet memories!
They recently filmed the movie "Nonnas" at the already closed Spirito's. There's a couple of scenes where you can still see the ghost of what Spirito's was when it was open. You should watch it.
It might be gone now, but it will not ever be forgotten.
That's the thing about being from Elizabeth...these places are somehow in our blood.
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