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$19.95 Dinner For Two

Sundays Noon - 4pm

You =save nearly $10.00
newearly dining menu. During thesespecial times,
choose any two dinner entrees up to a regular price of $14.95 each and pay only $19.95.
Delicious decisions. Yourchoioes inducle any of these sixteen entrees from our regular
menu listed below:

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Petite Cut Prime Rib
Standard Cut Prime Rib
Sizzling Mushroom Steak
Stuffed Filet Mignon
Whiskey Peppercorn Top Sirloin
Brandy-Dijon Filet Mignon
Roasted Chateau Filet Mignon
Filet Mignon

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.Top Sirloin
Teriyaki Top Sirloin
Flame Broiled Salmon
Grilled Swordfish
Tempura Shrimp
Shrimp Scampi Linguini
Lemon-Herb Chicken
Teriyaki Chicken

So, join us for the $19.95 Dinner for Two early dining menu. Make your
reservations any Sunday and save almost $10.00 off the regular menu price!

Early dining offer :wadable on $19.95 Dinner lin- Two entrees only. Guests must Ix sealed
during special early dining tittles. Offer is limited to seating capacity of the building. Reser-
vations are strongly suggested and may lx• necessary to assure availability of seating. $19.95
Dinner for Two does not include sales tax or gratuity. Not valid on holidays, !Or banquets or

large parties of eight-or more, or with any other offers.

Valid at the Southfield location only.

Offer Expires
April 25, 1993

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Mon. & Tues.

DARWIN HINES
JOHN HEFRON
STEVE BILLS

Includes your choice of Pitcher

ONLY

90.95

Friday, April 9 at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 10 at 8:00 & 10:30 p.m.
Show, 0.00 per person, DINNER SHOW PACKAGE $34.95 per Couple

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Complete Carry-out Available

MOOSE JAW GRILLE & COMEDY CELLAR

1655 Glengary at Benstein • Walled Lake

Information/Reservations

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25938 Middlebelt Rd. at 11 Mile Rd. in the Mid-11 Plaza
Farmington Hills J WE SERVE BEER & WINE I 476-1750
EARLY BIRD SPECIALS

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SUN.-THURS. 3 P.M.-6P.M.

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FRI. & SAT. 3 P.M.-5 P.M.

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Served Over Rice

• HOMEMADE MEAT LOAF

Served With Pot. & Veg.

•LIVER & ONIONS

THE DETRO

Served With Pot. & Veg.

•CHARGRILLED CHICKEN BREAST

Served With Pot. & Veg.

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(313) 960-3388

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Served With Garlic Bread

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$495

ALSO INCLUDES SOUP OR SALAD & DINNER ROLL
•No Senior Citizen Discount on Specials
•Not Valid With The Entertainment Coupon

Reg. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 11-11,

Sat. 8-10, Sun. 8-9

A Detroit Teen In the '40s
Led A Different Kind Of Life

DANNY RASKIN LOCAL COLUMNIST

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he Mystery Muncher
writes .. .
"If you were coming
of age in the early
1940s, you were called an
adolescent. By the mid-'40s,
you were labeled with the
more respectable designation
of teen-ager.
"With everyone over 18 in
the service, younger boys
were often the biggest men in
town. Many had money in
their pockets, and girls earn-
ed spending money babysit-
ting or working at stores like
Sam's Cut Rate.
"Those who didn't work on
Saturday afternoons had a
choice of great things to do in
Motown. Some girls hopped
on the bus to travel downtown
for lunch and shopping, or a
movie plus stage show at the
Fox or Michigan theaters.
"Lunching in the Statler
Hotel Terrace room was
always a treat. Frames Tea
Room, Greenfield's Cafeteria
or the Brass Rail were just a
few alternatives.
"The real bargain was Top's
where you could get a ham-
burger for 60 cents or a salad
for 15 cents. If you felt like
splurging, the filet mignon
was $1.10.
"Movies were part of the
fantasyland of the wartime
years and teen-agers were big
fans. In 1940, Rebecca won
the Oscar for best picture.
And who can forget
Cassablanca, the 1943 win-
ner which has become a
classic.
"Other 1940s Oscars went
to How Green Was My Valley,

Mrs. Miniver, Going My Way,
The Lost Weekend, The Best
Years of Our Lives and All
The Kings Men.

"Television was in its infan-
cy. Milton Berle was the first
big name comedian to appear
on TV and became known as
`Mr. Television.'
"Red Buttons was a promis-
ing young comedian when he
entered TV. But he ran out of
gas. Sid Caesar managed to
combine traditioal pan-
tomime, satire, mimicry and
gags.
"Ed Wynn made a sensa-
tional comeback in television.
Other greats were Red
Skelton, Sam Levenson,
Jackie Gleason, Imogene
Coca, Martha Raye, Victor
Borge, Art Carney, Mollie
Goldberg, Lucille Ball, Phil
Silvers and Ernie Kovacs.

"Besides watching movies
and TV, teen-agers in the
1940s gathered at the homes
of whoever was throwing the
best party. Friday night girls
clubs were excuses to invite
boys to dance.
"The music industry boom-
ed. Kids were dancing to
'Elmer's Tune,' Green Eyes,'
`Juke Box Saturday Night,'
`Mairzy Doats,"Rum and
Coca Cola,' I Hear a Rhap-
sody' and 'Green Eyes.'
"By 1946, record companies
were selling 10 times as many
songs as they had a decade
earlier. Two years later, the
industry got another boost
when tough plastic 45 rpm
and long playing 33 rpm
records made the brittle old
78s obsolete.
In 1944, Francis Albert
Sinatra stormed onto the
scene. 'The King of Swoon'
crooned romantic ballads and
bobbysoxers squealed with
ecstasy.
"He was a screaming suc-
cess with the Tommy Dorsey
band .singing such tunes as
`Fools Rush In,' White
Christmas' and 'Night and
Day.'
"Sophisticated teen-agers
were living it up at places like
the Wonder Bar, the Bowery,
the Flame Show Bar and the
Elmwood Casino in Windsor.
"And, of course, an evening
on the town wouldn't be corn-
plete without a midnight
snack at Darbys, a never-
again-duplicated Detroit
landmark restaurant.

"Other popular spots were
the Alamo, Robin Hood's,
Brothers Deli, Hedge's
Wigwam, Chidwah Tea Room,
Jbpinka's, Big Bear, Pontchar-
train Wine Cellars and
Rathskellers.
"Eastwood Park was a
favorite for teens who dance
under the start to the likes of
Benny Goodman, Harry
James, Glen Miller, Jimmy
Dorsey and Artie Shaw.
"The overwhelming urge of
teen-agers in the '40s was to
be like every other teen-ager.
Girls dressed alike in baggy,
rolled-up blue jeans, sloppy
shirts, pork pie hats and pell
mell raincoats.
"Boys wore sloppy trousers,
loafers and dangling shirt
tails. They enlisted or were
drafted into the armed
services.
"During the war, most

males between 18 and 36
discovered in their mail a
notice that began with the
fateful word, 'Greetings.'
"Those at home got along
on rationed meat, sugar and
gas and made do with a shor-
tage of hairpins, nylon hose
and eyeglasses.
"They sold War Bonds, grew
Victory Gardens, gave blood,
formed a Civilian Defense
Corps and saved empty
toothpaste tubes for scrap
metal drives.
"They launched the biggest
scavenger hunt in history and
ransacked their attics for
discarded boots, aluminum-
pots, tin cans and anything
else that could be turned in-
to armaments.
"Meat, coffee, butter, cheese,
sugar and almost everything

Lunch, shopping
and a show
downtown were
treats.

people liked to eat was strict-
ly rationed by a point system
that drove housewives and
grocers crazy.
"Songwriters, cartoonists,
movie makers and others in
creative fields brought fan-
tasy to the war years. Rosie
the Riveter was a favorite.
Superman pushed the Red
Cross and V-Bonds.
"Joe Palooka jointed the Ar-
my, Terry fought Japs instead
of pirates and Daddy War-
bucks was a general. Willie
Gillis, the jug-eared GI
created by Norman Rockwell
for Saturday Evening Post
covers, personified for
mothers their sons gone to
war.
" 'This is the Army, Mr.
Jones,' He Wears a Pair of
Silver Wings; 'I Left My
Heart at The Stage Door Can-
teen; 'Praise The Lord and
Pass The Amunition,"The
White Cliffs of Dover,' and
`Don't Sit Under The Apple
Tree' had special meaning to
young lovers.
"Aug. 14, 1945, marked the
end of the war with Japan.
Shopping for civvies, soldiers
sized up sharp, double-
breasted suits.
"People were reading best
sellers: Forever Amber, The