Post #710682 by Carol McD on Sun, Mar 9, 2014 5:10 PM

It's weird how your mind can go on a tangent and you get to looking up things from your past.

I was looking up Notre Dame High School in Toledo, which is where my mom went to high school. Notre Dame was at one time located on Bancroft near Monroe Street - right at that major intersection. There's a book on Toledo architecture that has a photo of the school as it existed before it was razed in 1960. It sure looked a lot different than the Town House Motel that replaced it!

I was born and raised in the Toledo area, and remember the Aku Aku. My first job out of high school was at this office that was run by a colorful Italian character. He took the office staff out for lunch one day to the Aku Aku. I don't remember much about it, except that the place definitely had a reputation, and it was so exciting to be having lunch there. The place was packed. Toledo movers and shakers ate there for lunch. This would have been around 1971. I smoked back then, so maybe I had a matchbook cover from the place. I used to grab them whenever I went to a restaurant. I guess we should have hung on to all of our matchbooks from that era. They might be worth something to a collector of Toledo memorabilia.

Just thought I would add this.