I was looking into Justin Trudeau making pizza at a place called Stoney's https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1441138. It feels like a name that could be a reference to stone masonry or freemasonry. Although I found nothing related to Trudeau, and nothing that follows is either, this place popped up in my search. Stay with me, because I think I found a connection to pizza shops and tombstone shops. I know... Hear me out.

Stoney's itself I personally find creepy, being a house with a side door, plus it's physical location and surrounding businesses being a tombstone shop and a Burger King feels low-end. The reviews are interesting to read and not positive. It looks like there's an eye and writing I can't make out on the sign by the side door here The tombstone place next door kept bugging me too, Barnicoat Monuments. Terrible reviews

I remember a creepy pizza place that I loved as a kid, which is actually still open. Fun House Pizza. Just look at their webpage It has physical rides (not shown) like a helicopter and horse, arcade, and I remember the back room being for adults only. Seems like they're branding themselves more a Chuck E. Cheese vibe nowadays (although I'm not sure that's better) Their commercial just bugs me for some reason, but I can't figure it out. Sweet six-sided star sign too... 2 doors from Fun House we have Joe's Statuary (notice the Fun House 6-point star in the picture)

Getting back to Stoney's, notice it's right next to a tombstone shop. Fun House Raytown is too. Maybe coincidence. That's what led to Tombstone Pizza, to Nestle, to this weird psa from Nestle Good Pizza Habits for Children.

The only lead I had to connect the monument/tombstone places to freemasonry was this Frederick Barnicoat person. Turns out, he was a very successful businessman, contributing to openly masonic ceremonies, and running quarries containing the only source of a particular type of granite, source.

FREDERICK BARNICOAT, a skillful granite sculptor of Quincy, was born in Penryn, Cornwall, England, April 7, 1857, son of Thomas P. and Emma (Cur- dew) Barnicoat. The father, also a native of Penryn, was there for many years a contracting mason, having a large business and employ- ing man)' men. His wife, Emma, likewise a native of Penryn, bore him nine children. These are: Elizabeth, the wife of James Coles, of Leeds, Yorkshire, England; Emma, the wife of James Hogg, also of Leeds; Mary Hannah, the wife of Henry VVorsdell, of Quincy, Mass. ; Charlotte, a school teacher in Birmingham, England; John, of Providence, R. I.; Edwin, of Mylor r Cornwall, England; Frederick, the subject of this sketch; S. Henry, of Quincy, Mass. ; and Charles, of Providence, R.I. Frederick Barnicoat was educated, and learned the trade of a granite cutter in Penryn, England, living there until twenty- four years old. Emigrating then to America, he settled in Westerly, R.I. Here he fol- lowed his trade for five years, and subse- quently in Boston for six months. After com- ing to Quincy in 1886, he had been employed as a carver and statue cutter for two years, when he started in business for himself, being the only person in the city making a specialty of statue cutting. Since then, by re- markably artistic work, he has achieved a wide reputation, and now receives orders from all parts of the Union. He has done much work for soldiers' monuments. In the last year he cut and shipped thirty-three figures, employing as assistants about twenty-two men. He takes great interest in anything connected with the development of the granite industry, and is one of the directors of the T. W. Smith & Co. Granite Turning Company. Mr. Barnicoat is a member of the Sons of St. George. He married Mary M. I. awry, who was born in l'enryn, England, daughter of Alexander Lawry. They have seven children living; namely, Charles, Gertrude, Stanley, Nelson, Minnie, Emma, and Frederick, Jr

There has been controversy over whether a memorial statue he created was memorializing Union or Confederate soldiers here

And he completed the Alabama Confederate Monument

Due to pressing post-war needs for proper burial of many Confederate bodies lying in shallow battle eld graves, and the needs of widows, orphans, and Confederate veterans during Reconstruction, plus an economy slow to recover from the war, the cornerstone was not laid until 1886. More than 5,000 people witnessed Jefferson Davis perform that ceremony with full Masonic rites near the spot where he had taken the oath of of ce as the only President of the Confederacy. Another twelve years passed before the monument designed by New York sculptor Alexander Doyle (1857-1922) was completed with his handsome bronze nial gure of Patriotism and bronze relief sculpture of a generic battle scene en- circling the column. Granite statuary by Frederick Barnicoat (1857- 1942) of Quincy, Massachusetts, representing the Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry, and Navy was added by the patrons to complete Doyle’s design.

The granite figures representing the infantry, artillery, cavalry, and navy were made by Frederick H. Barnicoat, who operated the larg- est granite sculpture carving company in the country. He employed thirty men in Quincy, Massachusetts and produced as many as fty statues annually using the latest pneumatic tools and other technical advances. Barnicoat also innovated the production of portrait busts in granite and may have been the only American nineteenth-centu- ry artist and entrepreneur to create them.

Alas, if only the whole monument were granite, the most durable of stones. If it had been built from the ground up in the 1890s, when technology had evolved to harvest, handle, shape, and ship granite cheaply, and when pneumatic tools existed to create granite statuary economically in the production centers of Quincy, Massachusetts and Westerly, Rhode Island (the only two places in the U.S. quarrying ne-grained grey granite suitable for gurative statuary), the monument might have been built entirely of granite like many that still stand in pristine condition in towns and cities North and South.