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LONG BEACH - On the eve of the 36th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, L'Opera Ristorante co-owner Terry Antonelli had been chatting with a customer who remembered walking the space with him before the business opened 20 years ago.
At that time, the 101 Pine Ave. location - a corner space in a building that first opened in 1906 as a Bank of America - looked nothing like a place that could serve food, much less fine Italian dining.See the full content of this document
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L'opera Celebrates 20 Years On Pine Avenue
"It was like a bomb shelter, all steel beams, no windows, no doors, nothing," Antonelli said.
"We had to walk down scaffolding to get down below and (the customer) said, 'Are you crazy?' And I said, 'Yeah, I might be.' "But Antonelli, a native New Yorker,...See the full content of this document
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