IRONDEQUOIT, N.Y. -- A Sea Breeze fixture is coming down Vic & Irv's is being demolished and with it is eight decades of memories.

People met their husbands and wives, or got their first jobs at this hamburger hot spot. But as one chapter closes, another one begins, with the effort of keeping the Vic & Irv's tradition alive.

The restaurant on Sea Breeze's Hot Dog Row is being demolished. People stopped, stared, took pictures to capture a piece of history disappearing. Francine Beth came out to see it for herself.

"My father was a regular here and they would close in January and February and he actually would by a 100 porters, white hot dogs, whatever the heck they're called and freeze them to just get him through the winter," said Beth.

It was the fellowship and the food that kept people coming back for eight decades. Cheryl Hopkins started working at Vic & Irv's when she was 15.

"That was a part of my growing up down there. I was there until I was 18, 19 years old," said Hopkins.

She's seen the building transform over the years.

"When we were down there in the winter time it would be cold and I go, 'You should have been down there when we had garage doors because we were walking around in our coats.' People would eat with their coats on, sometimes with their gloves, it was just the building," said Hopkins.

But now she's making more memories at Vic's Place. It's restaurant just up the street from the old Vic & Irv's.

"In my eyes, we're still keeping Vic's dream alive," said Hopkins.

And that's what the owner of Vic's Place hoped for.

"The food is the same, the hot sauce recipe is the same, we can see the view from our location," said John Danielowicz of Vic's Place.

Now it's Vic's with a view.

"Vic had a lot of locations on this particular strip as far up as the amusement park entrance to the down here so he wasn't afraid to move around a little bit and so are we," said Danielowicz.

The old Vic & Irv's location is expected to be apart of Bill Gray's expansion project. Town Supervisor Adam Bello says a new taproom and more parking is on the way.