West Virginia
This Red Sauce Restaurant in West Virginia Still Feels Like Home, 85 Years After It First Opened
For the Time Capsule sequence, we highlight a cherished restaurant, resort or landmark that’s modified remarkably little over time. This week, we go to Minard’s Spaghetti Inn in West Virginia.
THEN
When Michael and Rose Minard handled their first clients to spaghetti and hand-rolled meatballs, it was of their humble stucco dwelling’s eating room, in Clarksburg, W.Va., modestly furnished with an outdated oak desk and about six chairs. By the Nineteen Thirties, an Italian-American neighborhood flourished in north-central West Virginia, however the Nice Melancholy lingered and industrial jobs that sustained immigrant households on the flip of the century had largely dried up. The Minards had little however culinary know-how, handed down from Calabrian ancestors and that stucco constructing wherein Minard’s Spaghetti Inn was born in 1937.