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West Market Street bar now displays what was fixture on South Main
By Jim Carney
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Monday, Apr 07, 2008
It had become legendary, a part of the downtown Akron landscape where it hung for more than six decades on a building across from what is now Canal Park.
Last fall, Alan Perella, manager of Larry's, called the owner of the building where it hung and asked what he planned to do with it.
Building owner George Giancarli told Perella he would give it to him.
Perella hired a sign company to remove it and took it to his North Hill home.
Late this winter, his brother, Mike Perella, of Perella Construction, built a wooden frame and had it protected by a sheet of Plexiglas.
Perella, 44, said it took three grown men to lift the framed four-foot-by-eight foot sign and hang it in the hallway by the rear door of the popular bar and restaurant over the weekend.
The second Eat sign — it is two-sided — is still at Perella's home. He hasn't yet come up with plans for use of the second one.
Customers have registered ''sheer surprise'' at the large sign at Larry's, Perella said.
''I feel like something has been saved and shared,'' Perella said.
''I think the fact that it says ''Open 24 hours'' is a subtle reminder of what Akron once was with rubber factory workers needing a place 24 hours a day.
''We aren't that city anymore,'' he said. But the all-night rubber factories that ran the Akron economy for decades ''put us on the map.''
Jim Carney can be reached at 330-996-3576 or jcarney@thebeaconjournal.com.
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