The video shows the renowned sign of Dipasqual

Baltimore dipasquales, a long-standing family in family-owned and Baltimore basic food, has to be stolen with the well-known sign early on Thursday morning.

The Italian Deli building of the old Dipas Quality has been in operation in the Highlandtown district of Baltimore for more than 100 years.

The hand -painted, laminated sign is said to have kept in front of the family business of Di Pasquale since 1988.

“I don't know, it's just strange,” said Domenico Santino di Pasquale, the fourth generation business owner. “About four years ago we moved from here to Brewers Hill, where it is about a month from time to time. We opened this original location again.”

Video, which was preserved by WJZ, shows that someone tears off the building.

Video camera film material

In surveillance camera film material from WJZ from neighbors you can see how someone stole decades of signing the front of the building on Thursday at 4:45 a.m.

In the video you can hear a loud noise, while the non -identified person tears off the signal wall in seconds. Then see the dark figure on the right side of the camera with the sign towards Eaton Street.

Neighbors who did not want to stand in front of the camera said that the thyroid theft was strange because the crime in their neighborhood goes down.

“And it is only sad because the Pasqual sign was there forever,” said a neighbor. “It is definitely part of the neighborhood and part of the local culture.”

Di Pasquale said he wanted the person who took the sign to bring it back.

“It is part of my family history and you know that you can't get it back,” said di Pasquale.

The old deli was once an old hardware store. It is supposedly the same building in which MOB boss Al Capone worked when he lived in Baltimore.

Di Pasquale said he was just filling a police report, but if someone knows something, you should call the police.

“It's strange”

Di Pasquale started his day when he noticed that the sign in the Italian Deli building of the old Di Pasqual was missing along the Gough Street.

“I just did my daily routine and just went up this ramp here, and then I went by first, and then I looked and saw that the shield was missing,” said Di Pasquale, the manager at Forno and Pasqual Italian market.

The old Deli building was recently reopened in January as Forno, a new Speakeasy. It is a tribute to the history of the building while serving pizza, cocktails and small bites. Di Pasquale opened the Speakeasy with his friend Joey Faiola.

Di Pasquale on social media in the hope that someone can help his family to find the legendary sign.

“It has been with us for a while,” said di Pasquale.