Brady's Bunch of Lorain County Nostalgia

This 1970 Lorain phone book ad (above) for the Old Stone Villa was sort of a last hurrah for the restaurant, which disappeared from listin...

A Lorain Journal ad from June 15, 1939 Ads for the Old Stone Villa appeared in the Lorain Journal occasionally through the years. Since...

Linda’s grandparents, Mary and Samuel Ross (at left) and her Uncle Gene (at right), posing in front of the Old Stone Villa While I wa...

As hard as it is to believe, the building that eventually became the Old Stone Villa started out as a schoolhouse. You can see a sch...

1970 Lorain phone book ad Although I try to have my blog topics planned out weeks in advance, sometimes I rely on pure serendipity to gu...

Well, it’s the end of the week, and since I’ve been writing about restaurants lately, it’s a good time to post some articles about the Phi...

The Taco Boy restaurant on West Erie Avenue in Lorain, circa June 1969 (Currently the home of Chapman's Food Mart) Back in July 2011...