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The restaurant visitation dollar
among many people has seldom
been as important as it is today ... In
order for dining spots to survive troubled
periods it was necessary for them to come
up with different food items to maintain
their customer base ... Over the years,
they drew people for miles for food choices
far outdistancing second choices.
Darbys for chicken poulette, London
Chop House for liver and onions, Wonder
Bar for Powatan salad, Kingsley
Inn for skinned perch, Club
Berkley for frog legs,
Berman's for cottage
fried potatoes, Hugo's
for escargot, Healthy
Jones for new styles
of health food,
Cream of Michigan
for banana cream
pie, Joey's Stable
for chicken paprikas,
Ciungan's for different
ways to prepare shrimp,
Leo Adler's Harbor Bar for
cheese blintzes, etc., etc., in a very long list.
I REMEMBER WHEN DEPT. ... "I
started my television and radio sportscast-
ing in Detroit in 1961 at WJBK-TV and
Al Kaline was already a major league star
and standout for the Tigers. For the next 44
years, Al and I would cross paths numer-
ous times. From the broadcasting booth
covering the playing field to the locker
rooms, I marveled at his professionalism as
a player and conduct as a human being.
"I once asked him if he had it to do all
over again what would he change. `I would
have liked to have been stronger physi-
cally. Weight training and lifting
few places have them better
weights were nonexistent for
than at Pasta Fagioli, Square
baseball players when I started
Lake Road, east of Telegraph,
out. Had I lifted weights, I prob-
Sugar Bush Plaza, Bloomfield
ably would have hit at least 35
Hills ... owner/Chef Hamad
more home runs. All Al did in
Kouka is a master at prepar-
his 22 years is finish with 399
ing the favorite of many.
four-baggers!
NO WOMEN ALLOWED
"During the 1990s, I substi-
to come in and enjoy the lus-
tuted as play-by-play announcer
cious steaks served by Harry
Danny Raskin
on some of the Detroit Tigers
Meltzer
years ago ... It was at
Senior Columnist
telecasts. Kaline was the analyst
the Oakland Bath House he
on them. I always thought Al
owned on Oakland, Detroit
had so much to offer sitting in
... Today, Uncle Harry's Deli, once owned
that position I decided during by Harry, is operated by his nephew, Rick
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the telecast to ask Kaline
Meltzer on Mack Avenue, St. Clair Shores,
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direct questions about
where folks come from around town for
situations, players and
Rick's homemade soups, potato salad, cole-
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his knowledge so to
slaw and pies along with his corned beef
inform the viewing fan. sandwich combinations.
After the first telecast,
MAIL DEPT. ... "Life here in Charleston
Kaline turned to me
is wonderful. The fine dining Charleston
and said, `Ray, thanks for Grille is doing great and my work [general
letting me talk tonight. I
manager] is fabulous, especially seeing so
usually don't get a chance to many Detroiters who come to visit. Last
say that much.
year, I created an organization called 'Feed
"Traveling with the Tigers for
the Need' where a different restaurant goes
over 10 years, Kaline often would give me
into a soup kitchen and feeds 500 people.
the name of an outstanding restaurant.
I am proud to say that we have just fed
Sometimes, he would add, `Don't tell the
our 25,000th meal! NBC News followed
other guys. Ifs our secret!"' ... Ray Lane
me for a segment to be featured on the
[Al Kaline and Ray Lane will be hon-
Today show." ... Mickey Bakst, former local
ored at the Hank Greenberg Memorial
upscale maitre d' and manager.
Invitational Golf Tournament, this Monday,
"The memories of you and the many
June 21, at Oakland Hills Country Club,
celebrities that came into Saksey's Lounge
Bloomfield Township ... Kaline receives
[Woodward and 7 Mile, Detroit] are many
the Hank Greenberg Lifetime Achievement and make me smile. On my 95th birthday,
Award and Lane the Dick Shaap Media
I look back on those wonderful years that
Award."]
Irving and I enjoyed so much. I remember
YOU WON'T FIND them on the menu,
the Detroit Tigers baseball players and
but soft-shelled crabs are in season and
Detroit Lions football players who often
came to Saksey's for dinner. I had many
favorites, but I guess that Gates Brown of
the Tigers was my top favorite. Among the
many celebrities who dined at Saksey's,
Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Danny
Thomas, etc. Please give my best regards
to everyone back in the Detroit area:'
Minnie Sacks, Cocoa Beach, Fla.
HIS SPRINGY JAUNT these days is
because Jeff Tackel hit his second hole-in-
one ... Playing with Stuart Novick, he aced
the par-three 13th hole at Farmington Hills
Golf Club, using a nine iron ... Jeff's first
was in 1998 on hole No. 3 at Shenandoah
Country Club, West Bloomfield.
A HAT THAT many people don't know
he wears makes Marvin Yagoda a two-
fold operator ... His Marvin's Marvelous
Mechanical Museum on Orchard Lake
Road, Farmington Hills, serves too as a
dropoff and pickup spot for prescriptions
... Marvin also owns Sam's Drugs on
Fenkell, Detroit, and toils days there as a
registered pharmacist, filling the scripts
and sending them to the museum.
CORRECTION DEPT. ... It's not cake
that Marilyn "Bird Lady" Warnick feeds the
birds who come daily to Marilyn and Avery
Warnick's home ... It is Fruit and Nut
Challah with or without streusel topping
from Diamond Bakery at West Bloomfield
Plaza on Orchard Lake Road ... "The birds
prefer it with the streusel," says Marilyn.
CONGRATS ... To Sharon Green on her
62nd birthday ... To Marsha Moss on her
70th birthday ... To Jack Adelman on his
86th birthday ... To Minnie Sacks on her
95th birthday. ❑
Danny's e-mail address is
dannyraskin@sbcglobahnet.
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