Denver-Born Anthony's Pizza Celebrates Forty Years of Slices

A lot of things were different back in 1984. Ghostbusters was at the top of the box office, LeBron James was a newborn, and lift tickets were less than $15. But pizza was as popular as it is today, and a New Yorker named Henry Mann started selling it by the slice out of a small storefront at 1550 California Street, ten years before the D Line became RTD's first light-rail operation.

Anthony's Pizza & Pasta would go on to become a Front Range empire, slinging pies (along with subs, salads and spaghetti) at locations all over the metro area. While the original 16th Street Mall location fell prey to the pandemic, Anthony's is still going strong, celebrating forty years of gooey New York-style slices slicked with brick-red sauce and just the right amount of unctuous orange oil.