Wait a minute. There was an Italian restaurant at 105 N. Main St. before Luigi’s?!?
You learn something new every day. Sometimes twice in the same day.
Beacon Journal reporter Tawney Beans revealed an interesting piece of local trivia in her Just Asking article “How did Luigi’s Restaurant in Akron get its name?” I didn’t know that founders Nick and Rose Ciriello had christened the 1949 landmark after a radio character in “Life with Luigi,” a CBS comedy series that aired from 1948 to 1953…