On Wed 09 Feb 2005 09:21:56p, Vox Humana wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Wed 09 Feb 2005 08:11:09p, Dog3 wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>> > Gawd, did you visit any of the festivals? The tomato festival in
>> > Reynoldsburg was interesting. I met David Selby (Dark
>> > Shadows/Falconcrest fame) at the festival. My friend, Alissa
>> > Schottenstein and I went and she is friends with the Selby's. The
>> > Selbys were in Colombus to buy a horse from a famous horse farm in
>> > Colombus. Can't recall the name of it. The wife complained numerous
>> > times there was no SAKs in Columbus. Well, Lazarus was where I
>> > shopped. Still have my credit card and get a catalog now and then.
>> >
>> > 'Thanks for the memories'
>> >
>> > Michael
>>
>> I 'member all that, too. Living in the Cleveland area, we often went
>> down to Columbus for something different than Cleveland offered.
>> Probably before your time there, but there used to be a Marzetti's (of
>> the bottled salad dressing "fame") Restaurant downtown. The Marzetti
>> family had run it for years. It wasn't far from Lazrus' downtown
>> store. Their food was actually rather good and predominantly Italian,
>> although the place had the feeling of a "tea room" where ladies lunch.
>> :-)
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> Marzetti's was on East Broad street, near the corner of Broad and High -
> across the street from the capitol. It closed in the mid 70s. Do you
> remember the Christopher Inn, just down Broad? It was the white,
> circular hotel owned by the Catholic Church and later by the State
> Teacher's Retirement Fund.

Yes, I remember it well, although I never actually went there, but passed
it many times.

Wayne