Restaurateur turns to Allentown for ‘the most Pittsburgh thing that I’ve ever done’

Kevin Sousa in front the social club he is working with Joe Calloway on to reopen as ABC, the Arlington Beverage Club. Kevin Sousa in front the social club he is working with Joe Calloway on to reopen as ABC, the Arlington Beverage Club. With Superior Motors established, Sousa was drawn to the project of reestablishing the club and keeping all of its long-familiar cultural hallmarks. "This is going to be the most Pittsburgh thing I've ever done." (Pittsburgh Business Times)

Kevin Sousa experienced a rush of familiar memories when he first entered the former Saint George Lyceum Social Club in Allentown.

The wood paneling, weird old signs and other cultural signposts of an old Pittsburgh spoke to him a way that brought up family memories, calling it "Pittsburgh kitsch, but none of it is fake.

Look for Sousa and partner Joe Calloway, of RE360, to take on reestablishing the club in a new but not entirely different form with the Arlington Beverage Club, or ABC, which will be Sousa’s first venture now that his Superior Motors is well established in Braddock.

Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times.


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