SPECLILISTS IN CUSTOM GLASS PRODUCTS: The Best Of Everything DREAM TEAM • Etirostvle Frameless Shower Enclosures • Conventional Tub & Shower Enclosures • Custom ltidl Mirrors • Mirrored BI-Fold Doors • Beveled & Etched Glass • Glass Furniture & Table Tops .• Handrails from page 58 Clay Ford Jr. ... It's a great job. I get to be as creative as I like." From John Mechlenborg in Glendale, Arizona ... former manager in the good days of Tapparooney's Restaurant on 14 and Crooks, and general manager of Bloomies Restaurant in West Bloomfield ... "I was going over some newspaper arti- cles and stirring up some old memo- ries and found this article you wrote about me August 16, 1985. The article was a great boost to my career. "I am still involved in the food serv- ice business as an ad•iser/consultant and still use your article to give them a look into my background and past." REUNION DEPT ...Oak Park class of 1973 has its 30-year shindig Saturday, Aug. 30 ... at the Westin Hotel in Southfield ... For info, call Fran Gurwin-Bell, (248) 706-0738, or Elie Morris, (248) 408-8054 ... Big 50 by Detroit's Central High class of 1953 is Saturday, Sept. 13, at El Dorado Country Club in Commerce Township ... Deadline is Aug. 13 ... For more info, call Bernice Nedelman Betman, (248) 737-5773 ... Mumford High class of 1963 is Saturday, Sept. 20 ... also at the El Dorado Country Club ... For more info, contact Joani or Jim Lesser, (248)626-2636, or email lesser@jameslesser.com Detroit Central High grads of 1948 funfest is Sunday, Aug. 31, 5:30 p.m., at Northfield Hilton in Troy with dancing and dinner ... For info call Don Sharfman, (248) 855-9015. 12TH ANNUAL golf tourney by City of Hope's Greenspan-Hoffman- Rosenberg Chapter and Temple Beth El Brotherhood is Monday, August 18 ... at Bay Pointe Golf Club in West Bloomfield ... proceeds go for pedi- atric cancer research and children's outreach services ... For more info, call Krysta Ivey, (800) 732-7170. THINGS I'D LIKE TO SEE again Dept. ... Sandra Mandrella and Sam Locricchio in the early `90s singing together like they did at Arriva Italia Restorante in Warren. In their entertaining ways, there were few better than the duo of Sandra and Arriva co-owner Sam, whose performances were always most refreshing. Sam had the true presentation of a professional ... fondling the mike with a lot of know-how garnered from those Las Vegas days while part of the Lorio group ... Sandra was its vocalist. Together, Sandra and Sam on stage at Arriva were cute as a pink bunny ... They sang songs of yesteryear plus standards of the day ... 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