The music stops for South Side institution as Excuses opts to sell and close after 34 years

PITTSBURGH — Paul Pantelas remembers the offhand way in which he and his brother came to start their South Side bar.

When a bar at 2526 East Carson Street, located at the time not far from the neighborhood’s steel mill, came up for sale, Pantelas, who worked in construction, asked his brother George Pantelas, then a sous chef at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association, about the possibility.

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