Here's a picture of the founder of Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q, Sonny Tillman, Jr., at the Waldo Road store:
Looks like the old place has undergone renovations a time or two since I last ate there back in 1979. In those days the place was still called Sonny's Fat Boy's Real Pit Bar-B-Q, but familiarly known as Fat Boy's. Tables back then were made of stained and varnished plywood, with backless benches to sit on. Sandwiches came in baskets with a bag of Lay's potato chips. The meat was cooked over an open pit, rather than the smokers that Sonny's uses these days, and the smell of the smoke as you drove by would make your mouth water. That original location succeeded because it was intelligently placed next to a bowling alley, during a time when bowling was immensely popular; it was also adjacent to an industrial area, so all the hardhats ate there for lunch.
I still like Sonny's barbecue after all these years, and I feel that the sauce is one of the better barbecue sauces out there.
Thank you, Sonny Tillman, for opening that wonderful restaurant.
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