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TOMMY PERISTERIS
RICK ROGOW

vacation, everybody had to take a
vacation, too."
His first delicatessen, called Hy
Horenstein's, was on Farmer and
Monroe in Detroit ... Then came
Second Boulevard between Willis
and Canfield ... and on to Six Mile
and Santa Barbara in 1942 ... fol-
lowed by Dexter and Boston
Boulevard with partner Mike Selik
... After they moved across the street,
it was on to Livernois and Seven
Mile for Hy.
That name of Hy Horenstein Deli
seemed to come into its own big-time
when Hy hit Livernois ... Norman
Cottler had built the Dexter-Davison
Market on Coolidge and 10 Mile
Road in Oak Park ... and his wife used
to be a customer of Hy's on Livernois
... "Why don't you come to Oak Park
and my husband's shopping center?"
she suggested ... At the time there was
only the market, Mertz Bakery and

"Years ago, the fatter
the corned beef, the
more people loved it."

— Hy Horenstein

Dexter-Davison Kosher Meats.
The most prominent of all his deli-
catessen-restaurants was the Hy
Horenstein's that opened on 10 Mile
and Coolidge in 1963 ... and didn't
close until he retired ... 23 years later.
It had just 55 seats ... and was in the
tradition that Hy remembered so well
... a delicatessen the way it used to be,
he says.
The only reason Hy finally broke
down and bought a slicing machine to
cut corned beef was because, he tells,
women used to come in insisting on
their corned beef or pastrami being
very lean and thin ... 'Actually," relates
Hy, "this is probably the reason the
machines came into being in the first
place. Years ago, the fatter the corned
beef, the more people loved it."
He had never before owned a slicing
machine at any of his delicatessens ...
But even after finally getting one, Hy
never would use a machine to cut his
Jewish rye bread ... preferring to
always slice it by hand.
He was noted for his french fries
... Never frozen like at so many
places today ... The potatoes were
peeled and cut by hand ... and fried
until a golden brown ... never ever •

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