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Photo 6, circa 1919, Louisville Historical Museum E-S N-2 Some histories of the Blue Parrot Restaurant state that Mike and Mary Colacci started the restaurant in the building on this site in 1919. Although the Blue Parrot Restaurant came to be located catty corner to this site on the southeast corner of Pine and Main, the Colacci family continued to own the property at 701 Main until 2008, following the death of son Joe Colacci in 2007 at the age of 90. Mike and Mary Colacci had emigrated from Italy. According to a 1985 article in the Boulder Daily Camera, Mike and his brother, Jim, had started a dairy business that failed in around 1919. Starting then, Mike and Mary Colacci began their cafe at Pine and Main which has now involved several generations of the Colacci family. Written sources at the Museum credit Mary Colacci with having been the driving force behind the founding of the Blue Parrot Restaurant. The business started as a sandwich place with spaghetti served only on Sundays. During the early years of the business, Mike Colacci continued working as a coal miner. The 1928 directory for Louisville shows that Mary Colacci had a grocery store at the site of today's 701 Main, even though the Blue Parrot business was by then located at 640 Main. Service Station Usage Carolyn Conarroe in her book The Louisville Story states: