Chagrin Falls
registration:
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Quips Jane: ‘It’s just
as good as when I reviewed it. Tony has held up well, too.”
When Jane
walked into Tony’s Sushi Katsu restaurants in the Merriman Valley, where I have
enjoyed the cuisine from time to time, Tony swept her off her
feet when he hugged her into the air and said, “You’re going to be my
girlfriend.”
Two weeks later, they were engaged. The next year, they were married.
When a sushi chef
marries a food writer you know that’s a match made in cuisine heaven.
There were two Snows
who were BJ food wrtiers. The first was Glenna Snow, whose 1944 “Glenna Snow’s
Cook Book” has been purchased for decades and decades.
BJ readers thought for decades that Glenna and Joan were related. They aren’t. Just had Snow for a surname.
In between was
Polly Paffilas, Charlene Nevada and Connie Bloom.
Glenna retired from the BJ in 1944. Jane, who started at the BJ in 1979, in 2006.
Jane once told me:
“Glenna Snow’s son called me once from his home in Biloxi, Mississippi. He wanted to know why the BJ was still using his mother’s name. Her cookbook usually can be found at The Bookseller in Wallhaven.”
Parking lot or
salvation for BJ building?
The Urban Design and Historic
Preservation Commission on Tuesday, May 2 will consider whether
the former BJ building is demolished and the the property turned into a parking
lot or saved as a historic site.
The 230,000
square foot BJ building and tower was bought by Capstone Real Estate
Investments in Birmingham, Alabama.
Capstone
founder Michael Mouron paid $1.1 million in 2020 for the 44 E. Exchange Street
building. The BJ moved to the seventh floor of the AES Building at 388 S. Main
St., a former rubber company building.
Mouron’s sons
Drew Christopher and Lewis, who manage Capstone Real Estate Investments, own
the former student housing building at 22 E. Exchange St. and have converted it
into a conventional apartment property known as The Standard. They want more
parking for the apartments.
The meeting
will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 2, on the third floor of City Hall in the
City Council chambers.
The Akron
Times-Press opened the downtown landmark in 1930, and it became the Beacon
Journal’s headquarters after the two newspapers merged in 1938.
The Beacon
Journal was editor and publisher John S. Knight's first newspaper after he took
over the debt-ridden business during the Great Depression from his late father,
C.L. Knight. JSK created Knight Newspapers,, which once owned 32 newspapers and
employed 18,000 workers.
