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N 32 15.A1B
W 110 5C.643
A= number of bumble bees at bus stop, minus 2.
B=number of bumble bees at bus stop.
C=number of bumble bees at bus stop.
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From the 1930s to 1958, Italian immigrants opened 10 new restaurants in Tucson, and of those ten, three remain to present day: Marco’s, Caruso’s and Mama Luisa’s.
There used to be three Marco’s Italian restaurants in Tucson, owned by Gino Perfetto, as Mario’s once was. When Perfetto sold the restaurant in 1979, the new owners changed the name to Mario’s by changing the C on the neon sign to an I. In 1985, the current owner, Vince Vollero, purchased the restaurant and kept the name the same.
Despite the many change of hands over the years, the restaurant has never closed. In 1989, the neon faded and Vollero substituted fluorescent lights for the neon on the sign.
In 2004, the city decided to install a bus stop at Mario’s, but the concrete base of the sign was right in the spot where the bus stop needed to go. Volero, desperate to save the historic sign, hustled to get the sign registered as an historic landmark. The city restored the sign, picking up the $20,000 tab to do so.
Resource: http://tucson.com/entertainment/blogs/caliente-tuned-in/the-rta-will-restore-historic-neon-sign/article_e1dc6cd7-766f-5b0c-bd28-e9c75308e583.html