Hi - maybe I can help out here with a debate I have seen often...The restaurant was Louis Italian American Restaurant (not Louis seafood or any others that tried to grab some recognition with similar name or location) and was opened in the 1930s by my good friend's great grandfather Louis Natale Sr. of the Bronx. It was the restaurant in the original Godfather movie, and he and many of his family members were cast as extras in the movie such as Loui, his wife, his daughter Tina, Joseph and Josephine Margherita etc. Loui lived to be 98 (still with a full head of thick white hair) and never left the Bronx, residing happily in his third floor apartment in the brownstone most of his family resided for more than 50 years. He was a well loved man, a gentleman whom ended every evening sat in a huge, stately designed Italian provincial chair with a good drink and a cigar.