After four decades in business, a longtime restaurant and local music venue on the West Shore has closed.

On Feb. 13, Gullifty's Restaurant & The Underground at the Cedar Cliff Mall in Lower Allen Township abruptly shut its doors.

On a Facebook post on Monday, Gullifty's responded to an inquiry about the closure by saying the establishment will be shut down for three to four months pending a sale and renovations. No other information was available Tuesday morning.

Through the years, generations of people ate at the restaurant and watched bands perform live music in the establishment's lower level venue called The Underground. Many said The Underground offered some of the best variety of local, regional and even national music in the immediate Harrisburg region.

"Not only were they big supporters of local music but if they could bring in a national act, you could see just about anybody back in the day," said Glenn Hamilton, program director and morning co-host at The River 97.3 radio station.

Names such as the Martini Brothers, Jeffrey Gaines, The Badlees, Shea Quinn, Luv Gods, Collective Soul and Jefferson Starship all performed on stage at Gullifty's.

"It's a unique venue. With it being downstairs it felt like a cool underground scene," Hamilton said.

The business started in the 1970s as Dante's Pizza Pub and Zee's Down Under. By the mid-1980s, David "Ike" Eisenhower and then-owner Andy Zangrilli changed the name to Gullifty's and The Underground.

Its name came from a made-up word from "Mister Rodgers' Neighborhood." The restaurant was known for hand made pizzas but its menu covered pub favorites such as wings, burgers and sandwiches.

John Harris, founder of the Millennium Music Conference, confirmed Tuesday that Gullifty's has closed and said he had to move several acts planned for Gullifty's to other locations.

Through the years, he said he booked hundreds of acts at Gullifty's, mostly in the 1990s. He said the number of groups that performed at Gullifty's increased after the Metron nightclub closed in Harrisburg.

"I can't even think of how many acts I booked in there when that place was humming... We were doing original acts in there, not just cover bands," he said.

"It would take me a half of a day to figure out all of the national acts that came through there. It's just amazing. I'll tell you, there is a history," Harris added.

As for the restaurant, Harris said it was like the "Cheers" of the West Shore and a gathering spot for the Cedar Cliff community.

The Eisenhower family took over Gullifty's and The Underground in 2007. Owner David "Ike" Eisenhower passed away in December 2015.

Gullifty's also hosted the annual The 717 Music Awards.