45 years of memories for Pizza Palace (Duke Chronicle)

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By: Andrew Hibbard
Issue date: 1/8/09 Section: News
Last update: 1/8/09 at 5:58 AM EST

When the New Year dawned at Pizza Palace, the ovens were cold.

After 45 years and two locations-first on Ninth Street and then on Guess Road-Pizza Palace closed its doors Jan. 1. The restaurant was Durham's oldest pizza parlor and a popular venue for Duke-sponsored functions.

Owner Faye Rodenhizer said the closing was the result of many factors, among them people eating out less due to a sagging economy. She added that competition also affected the restaurant ...

In 1963, Pizza Palace was one of three pizza restaurants to open in the area. In 1978, Rodenhizer's father, two-time Durham mayor Harry Rodenhizer, bought the restaurant. His daughter took over the eatery in the twilight of its years on Ninth Street ...

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[1Hippiechick]

1. I feel your pain.The Rathskeller closed in Chapel Hill, and I have been going there since the 60s :(

[NC_Nurse]

2. I worked there in 1980. I was the only waitress most weeknights. My friend

was a cook. Harry was mayor then. Faye ran the place and her cousin Martin made the pizzas.
I hope they will be okay. They were nice to me, and I was pretty lost back then.