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Like stepping into Mayberry How Ocean Park businesses stuck to their roots and fought off threat of big-box stores
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OCEAN PARK — During the rebuild of Ocean Park Pizza in 2005, a longtime customer approached owner George Docolas with somewhat of an odd request. “When we tore down the old restaurant, right
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before, a gentleman came in and he was kind of teary eyed... He said, ‘I hear you’re tearing down. Can I have the table?’ and he pointed over to a certain table.” George agreed, but wondered why. “He told me he’d been coming in with his wife and kids years ago, and he’d sat every Friday at that table, and his wife passed away, but he kept that tradition going with his kids. He wanted that table because his kids were now teenagers, and for years since they were little he’d come and sit at that table.” It was part of their almost daily family dinners. “So of course I let him have it.” Although torn down, a piece of the old restaurant lives on through that table.