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When proposing a façade for the Medici restaurant’s current location, master stone carver Walter Arnold told owner Hans Morsbach, MBA’61, “This is right by the University. It needs a gargoyle.”
In fact, Arnold fashioned thre e stone figures: one eating pizza (shown), one drinking coffee, and one of Morsbach himself. (“It was a Renaissance tradition to include the patron of the work,” explains Arnold.)
The Medici, which originally was located two blocks away, still has the graffiti-covered tables and booths that date back from its mid-1950s opening.
