A look at Anthony’s Pier 4
The South Boston waterfront will soon lose Anthony's Pier 4.
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The business has played host to generations of Brahmins, Beacon Hill powerbrokers, and old-school celebrities, like Julia Child (right).
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Anthony’s national profile was dramatically enhanced in 1964 when Elizabeth Taylor (left) and Richard Burton dined there.
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Business has not been what it used be, however, and the restaurant will close in August.
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"Our father had a vision of this whole area and look what’s come true around us," said Michael Athanas of the restaurant's founder, Anthony Athanas (right).
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The neighborhood around Anthony's Pier 4 was a wasteland of rotting piers and dirt lots when the restaurant opened in 1963.
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With its incomparable water views, impressive wine list, and a menu stocked with local seafood, Anthony's restaurant became a phenomenon.
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Now, the restaurant is a vestige of another era, one that seems less and less relevant.
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The Athanas brothers – Paul (from left), Anthony Jr., Robert, and Michael – say there's a possibility they will reopen a smaller version of Pier 4.
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Meanwhile, longtime customers will soon be left with only the memories of the storied original.
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"I really don't know what we're going to do," said longtime customer Richard Sweeney. "I asked my wife to marry me there in 1974, and we've been going ever since."
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