Pizza House/Pizza Chef in Newark in the 1950s before relocating the business to Cranford in 1970.Liotta worked at the pizzeria during his high summer vacations from 1971 to 1973. “We were making $3.50 an hour back then,” Preziosi Jr.
recalled.“Ray was a great worker. … He used to show before me. He was a pizzamaker. He was excellent at tossing the pie, making the circle bigger.”With his ice blue eyes and broad smile, Liotta was a box office draw even back then. “The pizzeria opened at at 10 a.m., but there were always five or six girls lined up outside the store about 40 minutes earlier,” Preziosi Jr.
said. ” I was like, ‘Who eats pizza that early?’ It wasn’t hard to figure out. The girls were coming to see Ray.”Preziosi Jr.
considered the actor, who died Thursday at the age of 67, a dear friend who never forgot where he came from. “Ray was an extremely loyal, generous, funny, responsible guy.
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