Glove, Boxing
Object number2013.39.8 a,b
Manufacturer
Everlast Sporting Goods Manufacturing Company
MediumLeather/Cotton/Nylon
Credit LineGift of Joseph Costanzo, Jr.
DescriptionTwo (2) proper right red boxing gloves (a,b), tied together via black cotton laces. Each autographed by Paul Spadafora. Maker's label attached to top side of wrist. Number printed on center of each palm.Dimensions14 x 9 x 6 in. (35.6 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm)InscriptionsNumber printed on center of each palm "10".
Each glove is autographed by Paul Spadafora.
MarksMaker's label attached to top side of each wrist "EVERLAST".
Historical NotesBoxing gloves signed by Paul Spadafora. Many local celebrities dined at The Primadonna Restaurant, including McKees Rocks native and IBF's World Lightweight Champion Paul Spadafora, who gave donor Joseph Costanzo, Jr., a pair of autographed boxing gloves, which were displayed in the restaurant. Owner Joseph Costanzo, Jr., opened The Primadonna Restaurant, named after his wife Donna, in McKees Rocks in 1986 and ran it until 2003, when he sold the restaurant to John Welsh, former owner of Welsh's on the Rocks. Offering Italian cuisine from Abruzzo and Calabria, Costanzo stylized the peasant fare of his parents' native regions in Italy into up-scale cuisine served on a white linen tablecloth. He won multiple awards for his 83 seat restaurant, including The Pittsburgh Post Gazette's 1990 Restaurateur of the Year, the International Geneva Association's 1995 Restaurateur of the Year, the DiRoNA Award (Distinguished Restaurants of North America), and was named one of America's Top Ten Italian Restaurants in 2002 by the International Restaurant and Hospitality Rating Bureau. Locally, The Primadonna Restaurant was voted the best Italian restaurant in Western Pennsylvania by the readers of Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh City Paper, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Nationally, it was written up in the pages of Playboy Magazine, The New York Daily News, and Mid-Atlantic Country Magazine.
Related person
Paul Ross Spadafora
Related institution
The Primadonna Restaurant
Related person
Joseph Costanzo Jr.
Related person
Donna Costanzo
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Everlast Sporting Goods Manufacturing Company
1947