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Wesley T. "Pop" Swenson started selling hamburgers at Buchtel High School out of a station wagon in 1933. In 1934, he opened a restaurant on South Hawkins Avenue in Akron, near West Market Street. Swenson sold the restaurant in 1949 to Robert Phillips, who began expansion in 1952 with a second location in North Akron on East Cuyahoga Falls ...
A beloved Akron institution is turning 90. Swensons is marking the milestone with special menu items this summer and even a reunion of former workers. Swensons to mark 90 years in business with ...
You should visit the West Akron restaurant, a stone’s throw from the original Wallhaven site that Wesley “Pop” Swenson established in 1934. More: Akron-born Swensons' Galley Boy crowned best ...
The iconic Swensons drive in on West Hawkins in Akron will be serving up more than just Galley Boys this Saturday as it celebrates 90 years.
Opened in 1934, Swenson's has been a part of life in this Rust Belt city through good times and bad.
Lawrence Joseph Bader was a cookware salesman from Akron, Ohio who disappeared on a fishing trip on March 15, 1957, in Lake Erie. Eight years later he was found alive in Omaha, Nebraska working as a local TV personality named "Fritz" Johnson. He died from a brain tumor a year later, leaving six children from two wives.
This is a list of solved missing person cases of people who went missing in unknown locations or unknown circumstances that were eventually explained by their reappearance or the recovery of their bodies, the conviction of the perpetrator(s) responsible for their disappearances, or a confession to their killings.
Swensons is marking its 90th anniversary this year and has expanded beyond its humble beginnings in Akron. The family-owned chain now has restaurants in Cleveland, Columbus and Indianapolis.