Saturday, September 11, 2004


Gino's Famous CheeseSteak House (Philly)
- Image of the locals (pictures and badges of Police, Firemen, Celebrities, etc.)

What's in a Sandwich?
This particular night a few of my PCV buddies and I decided to take a trip to the famed cheese steak sandwich at Geno's Steakhouse in South Philadelphia. The sandwich's history in the city goes back to the 1920s.

For Philadelphia, it's the cheese steak, born in the 1920s when a South Philadelphia hot dog vendor named Pat Olivieri wanted something new for lunch one day and slapped some chopped meat on his grill. A few years later, at the suggestion of customers, he added cheese.

Joe Vento, the long-time owner of Geno's Steaks. Geno's is one of two famous cheese steak restaurants that have competed on a South Philadelphia street corner for 36 years. The other is Pat's King of Steaks, opened in 1930 by cheese steak inventor Pat Olivieri.

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