{"id":33,"featured":0,"modified":"2025-03-17 22:05:02","latitude":40.445839,"longitude":-79.97681143749999,"title":"Eddie's Restaurant","address":"2172 Wylie Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219","thumbnail":"https:\/\/hillhistory.org\/files\/square_thumbnails\/ee3e6f8f3c1759f2fe034227d768ced0.jpg","creator":[],"description":"Eddie's Restaurant was an unassuming, inexpensive eatery frequented by many Hill District residents, most notably the group of playwrights and poets that made up the \"Black Horizon Theatre Group\" - including Rob Penny, Bob Johnson, Maisha Baton, Sala Udin, and August Wilson<br \/>\r\n<blockquote>\"Another place we would hang out was Eddie's Restaurant...they would allow us to sit for hours<br \/>and didn't bother us. We didn't buy a lot of food, but they would always keep filling up our coffee cups.\" <br \/>\r\n<p>-<strong>Sala Udin, recalling the spots favored by the Black Horizon Theatre group<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>It has been said that Wilson concieved <em>Jitney<\/em>, the first of his Pittsburgh Cycle plays, at Eddie's. While Eddie's is mentioned in <em>The Piano Lesson<\/em>, the play with the strongest connections to it is <em>Two Trains Running<\/em>, set in a fictional but similar diner, Memphis Lee's, located somewhere in the immediate vicinity.<br \/><br \/>Eddie's was torn down in 2006 as part of the construction of the new Hill District branch of the Carnegie Library - perhaps a fitting end for a place that nurtured so many writers with its endless cups of coffee.<\/p>","sponsor":"","subtitle":"Diner was regular hangout for Hill District writers","accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"files":{"https:\/\/hillhistory.org\/files\/fullsize\/ee3e6f8f3c1759f2fe034227d768ced0.jpg":{"id":101,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","title":"Eddie&#039;s Restaurant exterior","thumbnail":"https:\/\/hillhistory.org\/files\/square_thumbnails\/ee3e6f8f3c1759f2fe034227d768ced0.jpg","description":"Eddie\u2019s Restaurant with sign inscribed \u201cFast Service - Meal A Minute - Spaghetti Our Specialty,\u201d | <a href=\"https:\/\/collection.carnegieart.org\/?creator=%22Charles+%E2%80%9CTeenie%E2%80%9D+Harris%22\">Charles \"Teenie\" Harris Collection<\/a>, Carnegie Museum of Art | Charles &quot;Teenie&quot; Harris"}}}