Une rue pour Dr Bob à Akron
Akron designating street name to honor AA founding
5/20/2010 - West Side Leader
By Stephanie Kist
A section of a North Akron street will be designated Dr. Bob’s Way to commemorate the 75th anniversary this year of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in Akron.
Olive Street, between North Main and North Howard streets, will receive the honorary designation after Akron City Council approved the measure at its May 17 meeting. Dr. Bob’s Way runs near St. Thomas Hospital, where Sister Mary Ignatia and Dr. Bob Smith established the first specialty unit to treat alcoholism as a medical condition in the late 1930s.