Yes, Mario's!!! Great Pizza. And the Vogue Theatre! For those of you familiar with St. Matthews, renovation of the strip center where the Vogue Theatre was is almost complete. Growing up in the St. Matthews area, the Vogue was the place to be on the weekends. My husband says the best thing to do was to buy your candy at Taylor Drugs, 6 for a $1.00 and then go to the movie. Instead of paying those high prices of 25¢ each. The theatre itself is gone but they've retained the sign. It looks great and the Ice Cream and Pie Kitchen is doing a great business. Cheers, Laura

Dear Listers, Laura has inadvertently brought up a dividing line for those of us who remember when in Louisville. It is the advent of pizza. I seem to recall and I could be wrong, that pizza was a food brought to the U.S. by soldiers who were probably with the gallant Fifth Army in Italy during WWII. They did not get home until about 1945. I have written a book about the Fifth Army and Louisville's Laban Jackson, who worked for and knew Gen Patton and Gen Clark and their wives. Labe was HQ Commandant. for both. I did not learn about pizza from my research, but from my trips to Schenectady, NY in the 1950's, where every other person spoke some kind of Italian and every person ate pizza. Anyway, soldiers were said to have brought back pizza from Italy and Sicily. So there are those of us who recall Louisville and think good German apfelstrudel (strudel mit apples) was the nectar of the gods and there are those who remember Louisville for its pizza parlors. The former group seems to be older, and when it comes to nostalgia, age helps. I, for one, chose to clog my arteries mit apfelstrudel. Tom the belwildered JONESDOGS@aol.com wrote: > Yes, Mario's!!! Great Pizza. > And the Vogue Theatre! For those of you familiar with St. Matthews, > renovation of the > strip center where the Vogue Theatre was is almost complete. Growing up in > the > St. Matthews area, the Vogue was the place to be on the weekends. My husband > says the best thing to do was to buy your candy at Taylor Drugs, 6 for a > $1.00 and > then go to the movie. Instead of paying those high prices of 25¢ each. > The theatre itself is gone but they've retained the sign. It looks great > and the Ice > Cream and Pie Kitchen is doing a great business. > Cheers, > Laura > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >