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Lansing (IttEnD Bff6 TRAYS DINING ROOM • CARRY-OUT BB BAR-B-QUE HOUSE o r Checke ero orm N (i s (248) 968-7427 " Lincoln Shopping Center 10-1/2 Mile Road & Greenfield Oak Park ■ (248) 968-0022 12/25 1998 Breakfast ■ Lunch • Dinner After-Theater • Kiddie Menu Remembering favorite places and friends as 1998 winds down. chicken filet sandwiches for everyone over 50 years in the delicatessen busi- from the Maple and Orchard Lake ness, did everything except wait on Road Big Boy, where he and Jimmy wrecking ball extravaganza- tables at the deli that bore his name at Michelson owned the franchise ... like take-down of the Hud- 10 Mile and Coolidge in Oak Park's Even their daughter, Missy, a student son's building on Woodward Dexter-Davison Farmer Jack Center ... then at Tufts College, brought to mind memories of the And if necessary, he'd wait on pitched in and helped mom Riverview Room at J.L. Hudson's in tables, too ... Hy was counter- through the many hours. the '50s. man, short-order cook, cashier HIS LUSTY baritone The beautiful room was once and even his own dishwasher. voice rocked the La Scala known simply as the J.L. Hudson Co. AT LARCO'S on W. McNi- Opera House in Milan, Tea Room ... There were two or three chols, there was a soup that the Italy, 11 times ... But it was- of them. three brothers were raised on n't Theodore Mitropoulos' The time had long passed since only talent ... Ted held ... It was on the menu but "Meet me outside J.L. Hudson's Tea diplomas from Athens Uni- strangely, not under soups, but Room and the first one there get in versity in classic psychology pasta ... The different delight D ANNY line," was an exclusively female saying. and political science ... was thick with pasta, peas and RA SKIN Usually a majority of handsome talked on WQRS radio broccoli (Pete added asparagus Local Columnist every Sunday ... and was females dined in the Riverview Room for an extra taste.) ... but also many men discovered what executive chef of Yassoo MUCH COULD be said the gals already knew ... That you Greek Village when it opened on about the very magnificent, big Woodward and 14 Mile. Yassoo had couldn't get a much better lunch at a job Mary Lou Zieve and her assistants just about everything folks could get in more moderate price in the Ciry of did ... putting together the local seg- Greektown without going downtown - Detroit. ments of the Jerry Lewis Muscular ... It was later co-owned by former The Riverview Room was a good- Dystrophy Labor Day weekend Detroit Tigers catcher Jim Price, now looking room after the feminine tea- telethon over Channel 2 ... Their one of the club's broadcasters ... Before' room atmosphere was gone ... The excellent work was worthy of much recently closing, the place was Oak- decor after redecoration and remodeling applause ... and a thousand drum rolls. land Grill ... and will soon become was at least neuter, if not masculine. Mary Lou's hubby, Mort, an adver- another Little Daddy's Parthenon ... As many came to expect in J.L. tising executive at Simons-Michelson- By the way, Ted is back in the Detroit Hudson operations, everything was in Zieve, would bring bags of breast of area and is soon to be heard good taste, including the food. about chefing at a local spot_ The east wall of the room (it was again on the 13th floor) was a series of large JIMMY LAUNCE, televi- picture windows that gave a fine view sion and radio personality, of the city and Detroit River. was king of the dinner-the- The menu at the Riverview Room ater circuit ... and his excel- had one or two items that probably lent performances at so marie . were superior to anything of their places were usually sellouts. kind in Detroit ... The Maurice salad MUNCHING A Greene hamburger with onions at thl and chicken pie. Seven Mile and Schaefer I had the chicken pie there years emporium seemed like going ago and always found it full of tender home to many who had chunks of chicken as well as the other moved out to the suburbs..- 1 traditional ingredients, including fric- People used to take their kid assee gravy. to Greene's for lunch or a Over the years, though, I became quickie dinner and they ner leery of chicken pies ... They seemed forgot it ... mother's cooking to have anything in them BUT chick- was never as satisfying as en ... And there were few places I Greene's ... The kids have would order them ... Hudson's was grown up, but discoverincf one of them. inimitable hamburger again IF PEOPLE had a hankering for (now at 10 Mile and Orcha Greek food, Hellas (now called New Lake roads) draws more ray,, Hellas) in Greektown was always a notices than the finest safe bet, from the salad to the mousa- aourmet dining . ka to the creamy rice pudding and DON VARGO'S ultima For years, Mary Lou Zieve and her assistants baklava .. Customers waited in line dream wasn't to be the best put together the local segments of the Jerry Lewis outside the restaurant as they kept restaurateur in the business Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day weekend The owner of Vargo's, on Si coming back for more. telethon over Channel 2. HY HORENSTEIN, who had L OOKING BACK: The .