Journal Restaurant & Nightclub Ads – Nov. 12, 1976

Who's this guy? You'll have to keep
reading below to find out.

Well, it's Friday at last. Although the weather has turned fairly cruddy in the last day or so, many of you will head out tonight to a restaurant or nightclub. 

Fifty years ago (during the autumn of my senior year at Admiral King High School), there were an incredible number of choices for food and drink in the Lorain and surrounding area. I've collected an ample sample of them, all from the same edition of the Journal from November 12, 1976. There are some old favorites in there that I've written about a few times, as well as some other establishments that I'd never heard of before, and are long gone. Maybe you'll recognize an old favorite and leave an eloquent reminisce about it.

We'll start with the restaurants first. Of course, I'll lead off with a personal favorite that apparently stayed open longer in 1976 than it does now.

Before it was Silver Dollar Restaurant, it was Roman Villa for many years

And here are the nightclubs (although many served food too, and might be considered restaurants). I'll lead off the parade with Friar Tuck's. It was located in a building (still there) that started out as the home of Holiday Restaurant, right next to Holiday Inn Motel.