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FEBRUARY 18 • 2021 | 53

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id your taste weary 
of juicy strip sirloins? 
… Had your taste for 
other dining elegant dishes 
changed for the moment? … 
If the answer was yes, then 
you might have had lunch or 
dinner at Billy’s 
Delicatessen on 
Livernois with its 
boodle of shop-
ping goodies on 
the Avenue of 
Fashion.
Owned by 
Bernie Litt and 
Bill Kohlback, Billy’s deli was a 
well-appointed delicatessen that 
listed plenty of Jewish delights, 
such as gefilte fish, lox, borscht, 
corned beef, etc., to solve your 
taste cravings.
Together they built up a 
thriving business serving some 
of the tastiest sandwiches and 
dinner plates in the city.
The sandwiches deserved 
special recognition at Billy’s …
The sandwich menu was large 
and varied and the potions were 
huge.

Their biggest seller was the 
corned beef sandwich … avail-
able in numerous combinations 
to satisfy the innards of many.
The Billy Combination was 
a top favorite … with corned 
beef, pastrami or tongue with 
Swiss cheese and Russian dress-
ing.
In their efforts to come 
up with something “a little 
different,” Billy did some noo-
dling one day and invented a 
Corned Beef Burger … This 
was just what the name sug-
gested, grilled and served on a 
sesame seed bun with lettuce 
and Russian dressing … There 
were plenty of sandwiches with 
unheard of combinations … 
even sardine combos … and 
that great American institu-
tion then … Paul Zuckerman’s 
favorite … peanut butter.
BOO BOO DEPT. … New 
owner of Uptown Parthenon 
Restaurant in Crosswinds Mall, 
West Bloomfield, is Markos 
Goulas, not Tom Goulas whom 
I wrongly told you recently … 
Like Tom, he also owns Honey 

Tree restaurants … Markos 
came from Greece in 1990 and 
graduated from Wayne State 
in 1995, becoming owner of 
the Atheniam Café at Eastland 
Mall … and then a Honey Tree 
owner in his family’s business 
… Markos also owns Greens 
& Grain Salad Co. at Somerset, 
Honey Trees in Bloomfield 
Township and Northville … 
Plus the Black Label Tavern in 
Livonia with a second location 
slated to open this June in 
Milford … Uptown Parthenon 
is open for carryout and deliv-
ery … Its dining room is com-
pleting its remodeling.
LOOKING BACK … Years 
ago when the inmates at then-
called Jackson State Prison were 
given fried matzah with chicken 
dinners for the Passover seder 
that Jewish inmates used to 
have, brought by Rabbi Joshua 
Sperka, Jewish chaplin there, 
and me, many of them would 
eat the fried matzah and stuff 
the chicken in their shirt … 
One time, Sammy Fleisher, 
Harry’s brother, ate the chicken 

and over-stuffed his shirt with 
fried matzah … When the 
other inmates found out, they 
kept slapping him in the chest 
… which was filled with fried 
matzah! 
OLDIE BUT GOODIE … 
On the sixth day, God turned 
to his angels and said, “Today I 
am going to create a land called 
Israel. It will be a land of moun-
tains full of snow, sparkly lakes, 
forests full of all kinds of trees, 
high cliffs overlooking sandy 
beaches with an abundance of 
sea life. I shall make the land 
rich so to make the inhabitants 
prosper, I shall call these inhab-
itants Israelis.”
“But Lord,” asked the angels. 
“Don’t you think you are being 
too generous to these Israelis?”
“Not really,” God replied, 
“just wait and see the neighbors 
I am giving them!”
CONGRATS … To Joyce 
Millman on her birthday. 

Danny’s email address is 
dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.

Danny 
Raskin
Senior Columnist

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Remember 
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