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Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly · When You're This Big, They Call You Mister · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

In 1924, he started a grocery store in Patterson, New Jersey, where he started selling traditional Italian sandwiches from a recipe he brought with him from his home country.

It was a long roll of bread filled with cold cuts and various toppings.

One day, he went to a museum in Patterson where he saw a submarine hull that had been used in the war.

He took one look at it and thought, that looks like the sandwich I sell.

From that day forward, he called his sandwich the submarine.

Soon, people came from miles around to enjoy Dominic's subs.

Now, fast forward to 1968.

The Yorkville area of downtown Toronto is filled with high-end boutiques and the most expensive condos in the city.

But back in the late 1960s, Yorkville was a popular counter-cultural hippie music hangout.

Cafes like the Mina Bird and the Riverboat were housed in shabby Victorian row houses and hosted budding singers like Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, and someone named Joni Mitchell.

In 1968, a new business opened just a few steps away.

Jack Levinson, a phys-ed teacher, and an accounting clerk named Earl Lindzen were looking for a project to make some quick extra money.

They scraped together $1,600 and decided to open a sandwich spot, as there wasn't much fast food competition back then.

The menu featured long submarine sandwiches.

They decided to claim the category by calling their new business Mr. Submarine.

The partners only had a six-month lease and they planned to move on when the lease expired.

But to their surprise, Mr. Submarine caught on.

There was a lot of traffic pouring into the ground floor location and the public could watch the staff preparing delicious sandwiches in the window next to a sign that said, Giant Submarine Sandwiches.

Soon, long-haired, shoeless hippies with the munchies began hanging out on the steps outside, despite another sign that said, Please do not sit on stairway.

Over the next four years, the partners would franchise 12 more Mr. Submarine locations.

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