Diglio/Daley and Rosa (Napoli) Naples Daley. Sarno, also ran grocery stores in Lima.Īntoinette “Nena” Rose Diglio/Daley was born in Lima on Christmas Day 1916, the daughter of Italian immigrants Louis C. By the time Jim Sarno was 16 years old, his family had settled in Lima, where his father operated a grocery store on North Main Street. James Joseph Sarno was born May 10, 1914, in White Plains, New York, one of nine children of Italian immigrants Antonio “Tony” and Mary Rose DeMeo Sarno. The couple also was involved in several other Lima nightspots, including Nena’s Lounge on East North Street and Jimmy’s Bar on South Main Street. Jim and Nena Sarnos’ dream restaurant would remain a popular spot for food and entertainment through the 1940s and ’50s. Yet they insist, it’ll still be Sarno’s and ‘High Class but not High Hat.’”
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Together, they have planned for many years to provide Lima with ‘Northwestern Ohio’s Finest Restaurant’ and their ambition has come true. 20 reopening boasted, “The quiet, reserved magnificence of the new Sarno’s is a tribute to the intelligent designing and the understanding of Jim and Nena Sarno. An ad in the Lima News in advance of the restaurant’s Dec. In mid-December the restaurant, which had closed earlier that month for remodeling, touted its new furniture, booths, lighting, bar, draperies and mirrors.
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It was shipped from West Virginia on November 24, and we had all the railroad traffic ‘chasers’ we could find, looking for it – but still no Vitrolite for Sarno’s new front.”ĭespite the missing Vitrolite, a colored structural glass, the popular Lima nightspot at 119 E. “We were going to have such a magnificent new front, but somewhere along the line, the Vitrolite was lost. 21 ad for the restaurant in the Lima News. “Somebody lost our Vitrolite!,” declared a Dec. As 1945 drew to a close, Sarno’s Restaurant in Lima had a problem.