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The Best Of Everything

Dinner & Entertainment - Please Call For Reservations!

Restaurant of the Year

--Hour Detroit magazine 2004

Frisco Adventure

A Birdman's eye view, from Alcatraz prison
to Fisherman's Wharf

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MONDAY - FRIDAY I I A vI - 5PM

dinner

MONDAY - THURSDAY, 5PM - 10PM FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 5PM - 11 PM

CLOSED SUNDAY

unique private rooms available

1824 west 14 mile road royal oak, michigan 48073 248-655-5000

ow offers some of the()
favorite items for 30 years.
Available anytimefor your carry-out needs.
Lox
$22.50 lb.
Corned Beef
$10.00
Extra Lean Corned Beef
$11.00 lb.
Fresh Roasted Turkey Breast
$10.00 lb.
Swiss Cheese
$6.25 lb.
Chicken Salad
'9.00 lb.
Tuna Salad
$ 9.00 lb.

"The best tuna ish in North America." -

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"Blue Gingerfeatures the best of Malaysia,
Vietnam & Japan." Danny Raskin, November 26, 2004

BLUE GINGER

Vietnamese I Japanese I Malaysian

Try our authentic Bubble Tea (our specialty)
Low-Garb I Low-Calorie Fresh Shrimp Roll
$5.95 I Lunch Entree includes Miso Soup
$5.95 I 2 Sushi-Roll Special (California & Cucumber Rolls)

Tues-Thurs 11-10
Fri-Sat 11-11
Sun 12-9

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2004

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6635 Orchard Lake Rd.

(in Old Orchard Mall)

248.737.7918

tap, toilet with no seat,
and a small table and
seat that folded down
from the wall ... But he
saw little of it ... After
30 years at
Leavenworth, his 17
years at Alcatraz consist-
ed of six years in the
"D" block, better
DANNY RASKIN
Senior Columnist / Jail Bird known as the Hole,"
and 11 years in the
prison hospital ...
Unlike the character
portrayed by Lancaster,
Stroud was a very bad
and dangerous guy.
Inmate Al Capone
had also been a pretty
awful dude, but evi-
I know that I was ...
dently
had some class
So it was certainly
Robert Stmud Al Capone
... Before being sent to
quite a surprise to
Alcatraz for tax
learn on a visit to
evasion, he did
Alcatraz during our
some good, too,
recent San
opening soup
Francisco trip that
kitchens to feed the
the picture was a
poor and lobbying
lot of Hollywood
for expiration dates
make-believe.
on milk bottles to
Imagine finding
make sure the con-
out that convicted
tents were safe for
murderer Robert
children to drink.
Stroud, the so-
His Alcatraz cell
called Birdman of
was much like
Alcatraz, never had
Stroud's, dingy and
birds at Alcatraz ...
claustrophobic
... at
His real nickname
Birdman Robert Strouds cell at Alcatraz
least someone said
was "Bird Doctor
it was Capone's cell
of Leavenworth"
... The ranger guide
because of the
wasn't the only one
canaries he had
who didn't know its
when imprisoned at
exact location.
Leavenworth and
Five of the 36
on death row for
men
who tried to
another murder.
escape in 14 sepa-
Remember that
rate attempts were
nice-looking cell
never seen or heard
Lancaster as Stroud
from again and are
had in the film? ...
presumed to have
His one at Alcatraz
drowned.
had no window, was
For sure, they
5 feet wide, 9 feet
weren't
eaten by
deep and 7 feet
sharks ... Those that
high, with cement
swim in San
walls, a steel-frame
Francisco Bay and
bed with a thin
around the island
mattress, sink with a
Son Scott Raskin on Alcatraz's
are not man-eaters
single cold-water
"Broadway" cell block
... just common

f you saw the
movie Birdman of
Alcatraz, you were
probably enamored
with the grandfatherly
character played by Burt
Lancaster.

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