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Franklin Shopping Center 3564310 FREE DINNER EQUAL OR LESSER VALUE WITH PURCHASE OF ANY THREE DINNERS 1 FREE SODA POP FOR CHILDREN 1 WE ONLY USE VEGETABLE OIL IN ALL OUR COOKING, INCLUDING FRIED FOODS NO MSG ON REQUEST FREE OFFER GOOD ONLY AT SOUTHFIELD LOCATION WING HONG 18203 W. 10 Mile Rd. at Southfield Rd. • 569.5527 Visit Our Farmington Hills Restaurant, 14 Mile & Northwestern, 851.7400 62 . FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989 Detroit's Chuck Muer To Mark 25 Years In Food Service DANNY RASKIN Local Columnist A local legend continues . . . and celebrates .. . as Chuck Muer and his C.A. Muer Corp. mark their 25th anniversary in 1990, Back in the fall of 1964, Chuck incorporated the C.A. Muer name solely for the pur- pose of providing food, beverage and entertainment services at the new Hotel Pontchartrain, set to open in 1965 on Washington Boulevard. Chuck had been in sales with IBM in 1964, but the "hospitality" business was in his blood . . . Chuck's grand- father, the original Joe Muer, founded the nationally-famed Joe' Muer's seafood restaurant on Gratiot 50 years ago. At that time father Joe and Uncle Bill also work- ed there . . . Thday Joe Muer's is owned by Chuck's brother, Joe. When opportunity knocked in the form of the Hotel Pont- chartrain, Chuck was making IBM calls at the Book- Cadillac Hotel on Washington Boulevard . . . He recruited two talented members of its food and beverage staff to be the guts of his new company . . . Leo Beil as comptroller and Larry Pagliara as cor- porate executive chef. In July 1965, C.A. Muer Corp. opened four restaurants in Hotel Pontchartrain as it put out the welcome mat for business . . . Restaurant La Mediterranee, Thp of The Pontch, Le Cafe and the Salamandre Bar. The elegant new "Pontch" with its French flair, Chuck Muer food and service and na- tional name entertainment was "the place to be" in downtown Detroit for many years . . . and still enjoys a world-class reputation. In 1980, C.A. Muer moved its headquarters to 1548 Porter St., but continued to operate the food and beverage service at the Pontch until 1984. Expansion of C.A. Muer Corp. began in December 1968 with opening of the Shaft mining-theme restaurant in Aspen, Cola . . . His first fine seafood restaurant followed in May 1970 when Chuck took over at the former Rotunda Inn on Pine Lake . . . and opened the original and famous Chuck Muer: 25th anniversary. Charley's Crab, which burned down on Feb. 22, 1975. His next restaurant to be opened was the Gandy Dancer in Ann Arbor in December of 1970 . . . It was the first of several adaptive restorations of historic buildings, transforming them into fine seafood operations. Chuck Muer and the cor- poration became nationally- recognized for such restora- tions as the Gandy Dancer, Engine House No. 5 which opened May 1974 in Colum- bus, Ohio, and Pittsburg's Grand Concourse, April 1978. In November 1978, the com- pany launched another im- portant area of expansion with opening of its first Florida restaurant, Charley's Crab on St. Armand's Key, Sarasota . . . Today it has eight restaurants in Florida . . . and Chuck maintains a townhouse in Palm Beach in addition to homes in Grosse Pointe and St. Clair. The company now operates 18 restaurants . . . In Michigan they're Charley's Crab, Troy; Charley's Crab, Grand Rapids; Gandy Dancer, Ann Arbor; River Crab, St. Clair; Chuck Muer's Uptown, Madison Heights; and Chuck Muer's Wayne, in Wayne. In Florida there's Charley's Crab, Sarasota; Charley's Crab, Palm Beach; Chuck & Harold's, Palm Beach; Charley's Crab, Ft. Lauder- dale; Charley's Crab, Jupiter; Joe Muer's Oyster House, Boca Raton; Pal's Captain's Table, Deerfield Beach; and the Outrigger & Island Grille, Jensen Beach. Ohio boasts Charley's Carb in Beachwood and Engine House No. 5, Columbus .. . Pennsylvania has the Grand Concourse, Pittsburgh; and in the District of Columbia is Charley's Crab, Washington. Chuck's uncle, Bill Muer, is now head honcho at the com- pany's Joe Muer's restaurant at Boca Raton. But with it all, Chuck Muer still can't stay away from the computer game . . . A few years ago, he formed the Strata Group, Inc. to put his and his company's expertise into computer software pro- grams . . . With headquarters at the corporate offices on Porter Street, Strata now had developed and is marketing automated point-of-sale, labor, inventory and other planning control manage- ment for the hospitality industry. And with it all . . . Chuck Muer is the same swell, bow- tied guy you enjoy having for a friend. MYSTERY GUEST con- tinues . . . "For one brief shin- ing moment during the 1960s there was Camelot. Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy epitomized the word charisma. The shock of the assassination of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, in bright sunlight on a street in- Dallas hit the nation with an immediate and horrifying impact: "Most Americans remember what they were do- ing on that tragic day when Kennedy was shot to death in the back seat of a convertible. "President Lyndon Johnson vowed to continue the New Frontier, add some humane elements and come up with the Great Society. High on the agenda was civil rights. "Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the shooting of the president and was himself killed by former Detroiter Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. Oswald was shot in full view of millions of Americans who were wat- ching on television. "In April 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tenn., by ex-convict James Earl Ray. Two months later, Sen. Robert Kennedy fell under the bullets of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Jorda- nian immigrant. "With television providing news and computers spitting out information, some 163 magazines and 160 dailies went out of business. "The sale of the Detroit Times had been discussed for 0.1 I 0,1 4 II 4 4 Ow. 0 - 4 0E4