Guide to Dining: Corinthian Family Restaurant

Here's yet another of those "Golden Crescent Guide to Dining and Dancing" features that appeared regularly in the Journal in the late 1960s and early 1970s. On the menu this time: Corinthian Family Restaurant. The feature appeared in the Journal on January 19, 1973.

When I saw that Corinthian Family Restaurant was the topic of this ad feature, I thought that it was the one on Broadway that I had written about back here. But this one is the restaurant owned by Pete Roubekas and located in the Sheffield Shopping Center,  in the space formerly occupied by an outlet of McGarvey's. 

So what's the story?

An article in the November 17, 1974 Journal profiling Pete Roubekas revealed that he had bought the Corinthian on Broadway in Lorain in 1966. 

March 19, 1967 Journal ad

It's unclear if he still operated the original after he opened his outlet in the Sheffield Center in November 1971. But by the time of the 1974 article, he had sold Corinthian Family Restaurant and opened the Farmer Boy Restaurant in South Amherst.

April 20, 1980 ad from the Journal

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Past "Golden Crescent Guides to Dining and Dancing" candidates posted here on the blog included Elberta Inn (Feb. 1969), Presti's of Oberlin (Feb. 1969), McGarvey's (March 1969), Saddle Inn (March 1969), Ponderosa Pines Park (May 1972), Elberta Inn again (September 1972), and Amber Oaks (September 1973).

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A quick Googling reveals that June Alexander (mentioned as performing with her Trio at Corinthian Family Restaurant in the 1973 ad) studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She released at least one album with her trio entitled June Alexander Presents Her Men in 1972. 

The back of the album notes that it was recorded in a one room schoolhouse; the photo looks a lot like the old Hickory Tree Grange Hall in Amherst.

That makes sense because in 1954, June Alexander wrote an article about the Hickory Tree Grange Hall for the Journal. (Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here.)