THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
/01111.1
Friday, March 19, 1976 27
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The Best of Everything
VINCENZO'S
`Avraham's Good Week'
Recalls Mandatory Israel
18211 JOHN R
By Danny Raskin
OKAY, PARDNERS,
GIT on yer most comforta-
ble bib 'n tucker . . . and hi
on down Tuesday nights to
the Old Mill Tavern on Dixie
Highway in Waterford for
some vittles . . . New all-
you-can-eat Buckboard Buf-•
fet (adults $5.75 and chil-
dren $3) is brainchild of
John Laffrey's very fine Old
Mill manager, Dick Green-
field . . . Together with
wife Cathy, Dick has cap-
tured much flavor of the Old
West in the popular Milling
Room. .\ . Both are "an-
tique nuts" and have sad-
dles: horse collars, etc.,
hanging around . . . plus
pails filled with candy,
suckers and toys. . .
The large buckboard wa-
gon with sides that fold
down to hold a salad bar,
soup and variety of dishes,
was built by Dick and Cathy
. . . They bought authentic
wheels and axles and went
from there . . . ending it up
looking mighty realistic . . .
When dining was done at 11
p.m. and the buckboard was
emptied before being torn
down, one customer wanted
to know if it was an Old
West hearse . . . The wagon
is put back together out on
the Old Mill entrance porch
to stay until Tuesday again
rolls around.
At a buffet, waitresses
don't have too much to do,
but our lassie, Mary Ann
Acosta smiled prettily, put
a bib on us (everybody gets
one) and cleared our table
most efficiently while were
away for other helpings
. . . The old-fashioned
home-made chicken soup
was delicious . . . Then
we made a salad . . . and
filled out plate with roast
beef, bar-b-q chicken, bar-
b-q ribs, beef stew, corn-
on-the-cob and home fried
potatoes . . . Hot apple
pie, coffee and a good cigar
topped off the fun evening
of dining relaxation.
But the night wasn't over
. . . After dinner out on the
prairie, the folks many
times sat around a camp
fire and listened to harmon-
ica music and sang . . . It is
quite a bit more comforta-
ble in the River Run Tavern
at the Old Mill . . . where
Joanne Allen plays all you
can name on the piano . . .
and has her audience partic-
ipating with tambourines,
cyrribals, etc.
Go on down the trail to
genial John Laffrey's Old
Mill Tavern on 'Tuesday
nights from 5 p.m. to 11
p.m.. . . and get in the Old
West swing of things with
manager"Dick Greenfield.
FROM MYRON COHEN
comes this ditty he tells ar-
ound the country in his own
inimitable way . . . About
the young girl who was hav-
ing trouble getting married
. . . In desperation, her
mother suggested she put
an ad in the paper . . . The
girl put in an ad that read,
"Attractive, young home-
maker desires companion-
ship of man seeking same."
. . . After a few days the
mother asked her daughter
if anyone answered her ad
.Avraham Bogatir had one
of those weeks. A young
Jewish terrorist, David
Mizrachi, invaded his home;
Bogatir was arrested for not
having his identification
papers and his Arab friend
Halil was murdered.
Bogatir, a transplanted
Russian Jew living in pre-
state Israel, is the major
character of GyOrgy G. Kar-
dos' "Avraham's Good
Week." Published by Dou-
bleday and translated by
Ralph Manheim,
"Avraham's Good Week" is
slow moving, possibly to
emphasize the fear suffered
by the native Jews and their
Arab counterparts in Bri-
tish mandate-governed Pa-
lestine. -
The book drags on about
Bogatir's nagging wife and
his tsuris in general. How-
ever, after wading through
the preceding, the reader
will find an exciting remin-
iscence about. what it was
like living in Israel prior to
statehood.
Kardos' characters have
little regard for the British
mandatory troops, the
"Brits", until the violence
they perpetrate against
the citizenry gets out of
hand. Kardos states:
"There's been so much
murder these days. The
Brits alone have been re-
sponsible for more devasta-
tion than the bubonic
plague. Violent death has
become an everyday affair.
A few months ago, the fol-
lowing item appeared in the
papers: 'Captain Ford, the
British executioner, has
gone on a three-week leave.'
Like a baker informing his
customers that he's closing
up shop for a few days."
Allusions are made to the
. . . The daughter hesitat-
ingly replied, "Yes, papa."
BIG IOTH ANNIVER-
SARY celebration is on at
Max's Deli, Southfield and
13 Mile . . Small Vienna
salami made especially for
Max and Belle Horenstein is
being given with every $5 or
more carry-out order (limit
one per purchase.)
RAMBLINGS . . . Sam
and Les Gruber will now
take a considerable amount
less than the original asking
price for the London Chop
House . . . and their Caucus
Club will also be thrown in
. . . Hugo is back in Detroit
. . . only this time looking
for a job until he returns to
the West Coast at end of
year . . . Sam Hadous, ex-
prexy of Lofy's and The
Michigan Palace, is still
running a little Nugget in
Novi . . .
George Young and The
Youngsters opened last
Tuesday at Joe - Bird's- Bim-
bo's on Michigan in Dear-
born . . . Bud Sherbow is
doing a super great job as
general manager at Town &
Country Club in Southfield
. . . question though is
whether he's appreciated
. . . The togetherness of
biwthers Jim Coleman,
membership director and
Nat Coleman, health club
director, is bringing in a lot
of new members to Town &
Country . . . Strange that
Herb Cohen's Raven Gallery
and Mama Zelda's owned by
Ira Levy and Fred Water-
stone, both in Southfield ha-
ven't gotten their liquor or
beer and wine licenses . . .
Naturally, the names Cohen
and Levy have nothing to do
with it . . .
Pity the people stuck in
Las Vegas last week during `Seder Melodies'
the strikes, with no place to
go except stay in the casinos Cassette Printed
and gamble for entertain-
NEW YORK — Seder
ment . . . Wonder why a Melodies, a new cassette,
Hamburger Heaven hasn't has just been published by
been opened in our locale the Jewish Education Press
... With so many people of the Board of Jewish Edu-
loving hamburgers . . . It's cation of Greater New York,
a California chain . . . If and Tara Publications.
they don't come in, some-
Containing 21 seder mel-
body could make a mint odies, selected by noted
with a spot serving only music authority Velvel Pas-
hamburgers of many varie- ternak and BJE Director of
ties from which to choose.
Music Education Richard
PROBLEM ON THAT Neumann, the cassette con-
smoking in a restaurant bit tains tunes based on tradi-
. . . The law to be signed by tional songs of Jews
Gov. Milliken will be for ea- throughout the world, as
teries of over 50 seating, but well-as some of modern Is-
what about those places raeli origin.
that get filled up and need
The melodies are per-
the extra seats . . . espe- formed by Hebrew school
cially the small spots?
students. All of the songs
• GEORGE WALDMAN,
are performed informally,
one of the oldest counter- much- as they would be by a
men around in point of serv- family around the seder ta-
ice, plies his trade Monday, ble.
Wednesday and Friday at
The cassette is compati-
Northgate Delicatessen on ble to standard cassette
10 Mile and Greenfield . .
players. It is accompanied
Semi-retired now after 43 by a printed guide, which
years of cutting beef, contains background in-
George is the only one formation on each selec-
(other than brother Dave) tion and includes origins
who worked with all five of many of the melodies.
Boesky brothers at the same
For information on ob-
time . . . Harry, Bill, Sam, taining the tape, contact
Abe and Sol were at the Eileen G. Roth, Associate in
Hazelwood and 12th Street Marketing Services, Board
spot in 1929.
of Jewish Education of
LOTS OF RADIO com- Greater New York, 426 W.
mercials about finding the 58th St., New York City.,
(Continued on Page 30) :.
N.Y. 10019.
Irgun and to prominent per-
sonalities in the movement
for statehood, giving the
hook a more realistic touch
and less of the fictional.
Descriptions of atroci-
tieS perpetrated by "the
Brits" and other acts of vi-
olence do not make for
pleasant reading, but help
to emphasize the enmity
felt by the native Jews and
Arabs toward the British.
"Avraham's Good 'Week"
is historically valuable since
it provides the _color of or
feeling for the mandatory
period often missed in
chronologies. It should be
regarded as a complement
to existing literature on the
British Mandate period.
—H.P.
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