Lost Restaurants of Central Ohio and Columbus

Lost Restaurants of Central Ohio and Columbus
Author: Christine Hayes
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439663513

From remote diners to downtown political havens, the restaurants of central Ohio satisfied palates for generations. In the era of Sunday drives before interstates, fabulous family-owned restaurants were the highlight of the trip. Sample the epicurean empires established by Greek, Italian, German and Chinese families. Recall the secrets of Surly Girl's chandelier, the delicious recipes handed down by chefs and the location of Flippo the Clown's former jazz hideaway. Following their previous book, Lost Restaurants of Columbus, authors Christine Hayes and Doug Motz deliver a second helping of unforgettable establishments that cemented central Ohio's reputation for good food and fun. That includes eighteen destination eateries in fifteen surrounding towns.

Lost Restaurants of Columbis, Ohio

Lost Restaurants of Columbis, Ohio
Author: Doug Motz
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017-02-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1625854552

Dig into the storied restaurant history of the Buckeye State’s capital city. Ohio’s capital city has long had a vibrant restaurant culture that included German immigrants, High Street eateries and the fads of the times. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas wrote their thanks for a great meal at the Maramor. Yankees star Tommy Henrich held his customers spellbound with stories in his Diamond Room. Mama Marzetti dropped William Oxley Thompson’s birthday cake and swept it back up off the floor. Join authors Doug Motz and Christine Hayes as they explore the stories of Woody Hayes’s Jai Lai, manhole cover menus and bathtub décor at Water Works, as well as many other lost and beloved restaurants.

Columbus Pizza: A Slice of History

Columbus Pizza: A Slice of History
Author: Jim Ellison
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467143766

For nearly a century Columbus, Ohio pizza parlors have served up delicious meals by the tray and by the slice. This history goes back to the 1930s, when TAT Ristorante began serving pizza. Today, it is the oldest family-owned restaurant in the city. Over the years, a specific style evolved guided by the experiences and culinary interpretations of local pizza pioneers like Jimmy Massey, Romeo Sirij, Tommy Iacono, Joe Gatto, Cosmo Leonardo, Pat Orecchio, Reuben Cohen, Guido Casa and Richie DiPaolo. The years of experimentation and refinement culminated in Columbus being crowned the pizza capital of the USA in the 1990s. Author and founder of the city's first pizza tour Jim Ellison chronicles one of the city's favorite foods.

Forgotten Columbus

Forgotten Columbus
Author: Andrew Henderson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738519616

Collection of historical photographs of Columbus, Ohio.

Kahiki Supper Club

Kahiki Supper Club
Author: David Meyers
Publisher: History Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781626195943

"The book will chronicle the rise of tiki culture, as reflected in music, film, and TV, leading to the proliferation of tiki bars and culminating in the construction of the Kahiki Supper Club. It will recount the development of themed-restaurants and examine the use of such elements as ersatz Polynesian cuisine, stylized dinnerware, tropical cocktails, and exotic decor in creating the proper ambiance"--

Central Ohio's Historic Prisons

Central Ohio's Historic Prisons
Author: David Meyers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738560038

With the opening of the Ohio State Reformatory in 1896, the state legislature had put in place "the most complete prison system, in theory, which exists in the United States." The reformatory joined the Ohio Penitentiary and the Boys Industrial School, also central-Ohio institutions, to form the first instance of "graded prisons; with the reform farm on one side of the new prison, for juvenile offenders, and the penitentiary on the other, for all the more hardened and incorrigible class." However, even as the concept was being replicated throughout the country, the staffs of the institutions were faced with the day-to-day struggle of actually making the system work.

Columbus Italians

Columbus Italians
Author: Andy Dominianni
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738582764

At the beginning of the last century, there were just over 11,000 Italians in Ohio. While many of the earliest immigrants settled along Lake Erie, a growing number ventured south to the state capital, a city located at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers and named for a famed Italian explorer. Importing the rich traditions of the old country, Columbus Italian families stayed close to each other, living in great concentrations on St. Clair Avenue and in the Flytown and Bottoms neighborhoods, Grandview Heights, Marble Cliff, and San Margherita. The generations of families who once called these Italian enclaves home have now largely dispersed but still form a community--colorful, hardworking, and fiercely loyal--bonded by the three most basic principles of Italian culture and the theme of the Columbus Italian Festival: "Faith, Family, and Friends."

Eating Your Way Across Ohio

Eating Your Way Across Ohio
Author: Karen A. Patterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781935001836

Award-winning author and journalist Karen Patterson covered over 7000 miles of Ohio's hills, valleys, lowlands, towns and cities to visit more than 100 restaurants. In Eating Your Way Across Ohio: 101 Must Places to Eat, she includes only 101 of the best locally owned and managed establishments where one can get a tasty meal in a comfortable environment at a reasonable price. Sure, some places feature gourmet dining, and others offer intimate candlelight dinners, but so many more let you relax in the environment of a 1950's diner, a holistic all natural eatery, a coffee and dessert café or a southern barbecue place. Whether you are eating on the run or luxuriously lingering over a good meal, there is a restaurant for you, and if not just around the corner certainly within a tank of gas from where you are.

Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio
Author: Richard E. Barrett
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738519623

During the first half of the 20th century, Columbus grew from a population of 125,560 (1900) to a population of 375,901 (1950)-a three-fold increase. Postcards were one vehicle for recording the activities that accompanied this growth. Columbus, Ohio: 1898-1950 in Vintage Postcards includes the earliest Columbus scenic postcards, many scenes from the golden era of postcards, and later scenes that show some of the changes that occurred in Columbus between the end of World War I and the post-World War II boom of the late 1940s. The material presented is from the personal collection of the author, considered to be the most extensive collection in existence. This collection includes all of the common views such as the State Capitol, and a large number of one-of-a-kind views, including those of Papa Presutti's first saloon and of Tommy Sopwith (the English airplane manufacturer) at an air meet in Columbus in 1910.