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Famous Boston Restaurant With Swampscott Connections to Shutter
Anthony's Pier 4 in Boston will reportedly close in August.
A storied Boston restaurant with Swampscott connections is set to close.
Anthony's Pier 4 , which opened on the South Boston waterfront in 1963 and has hosted generations of Bostonians, Bosox Club luncheons and VIPs, will close in August, according to a Boston Globe article.
Founder Anthony Athanas, who died in 2005, opened his first restaurant in Lynn in 1937 and later opened eateries in Salem and Swampscott, the article states.
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Athanas' sons still own Anthony's Pier 4 and the Humphrey Street restaurant Hawthorne by the Sea in Swampscott.
The Swampscott restaurant received a lot of attention earlier this year.
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In April, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence visited the Hawthorne restaurant to film a movie called American Hustle — a location in the David O. Russell movie about the 1970s Abscam scandal.
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