Scenes from a final rush at Bruno’s
Scenes from a final rush at Bruno’s
As a West Lafayette/Purdue institution closes and looks for its next option, a last day brings a crush of fans looking for one last slice
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SCENES FROM A FINAL RUSH AT BRUNO’S
The last pizza out the door Wednesday, and maybe forever, at Bruno’s was a Boilermaker.
“This is it,” Bruno Itin Jr. said, as he spread cheese across sausage, pepperoni, ham, bacon, green pepper, mushroom and black olives, on dough he’d tossed a few minutes earlier.
It didn’t take long in the dinner shift to get to that pizza.
Customers, including some who’d driven from across the state, started lining up around 2 p.m., nearly two hours before the doors typically open, after word got out a day earlier that Wednesday would be the last for the family-owned business that had been near the corner of State Street and River Road since 1955.
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