Jay’s Bar-B-Q founder dies

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    Longtime restaurateur Jay Prothro, founder of the eponymous Jay’s Bar-B-Q, died Sunday after a brief illness. He was 86. Prothro opened the first Jay’s Bar-B-Q in the mid-1950s in a former hot …


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