MAY 20 • 2021 | 109
T
here was a time when most everyone
who lived in the Detroit area had heard
of the former Dearborn region and
learned a lot of new and interesting facts about
this pleasant place.
It all started when it was
decided that there should be
some place closer than Detroit
for people who landed at
Dearborn’s Ford Airport …
About 25 acres of landscaped
grounds surrounded a brick
inn, designed by Albert Kahn,
that is set back from Oakwood Boulevard in
Dearborn.
Over the years, the inn became a favorite for
summer tourists who came to visit Greenfield
Village … Summertime was a busy season,
not only with tourists but also with wedding
receptions.
Most visitors were impressed by the good,
solid comfort and the feeling of being trans-
ported back in time to early America …
Service was good, but there was no jumping
… I recall a cocktail lounge in the hotel but no
jukebox or brass rail.
One satin well-padded armchair sat in a
wood-paneled room resembling the drawing
rooms of long-ago generation visitors … A
bottle room housed a collection of odd-shaped
antique jugs and of unusual flasks, some dat-
ing to the early 1800s.
From this comfortable spot you could enjoy
a delicious dinner in either of the inn’s din-
ing rooms with luscious roast beef and other
yum yum dishes … One could eat in a coffee
shop that also specialized in roast beef but less
expensive and just as good.
A family-style dinner had everything from
soup to nuts … Another specialty on the
breakfast menu was the General’s Breakfast
… This was named after General Henry
Dearborn, for whom the city was named …
He must have been quite a guy if he could
really eat the meal named after him.
The Dearborn Inn was owned by
Greenfield Village and turned all profits over
to the village for further development … It
was one of the few places around Detroit then
that was open on all holidays … Dearborn Inn
today is managed by Marriott International.
MAIL DEPT. … “
As a kid from the ’50s
and ’60s, my absolute favorite restaurant was
the Clam Shop. It was always an adventure
driving from 7 Mile and Livernois to Russell
and East Grand Boulevard, where it was dark,
industrial and a bit scary. In the midst of all
the warehouses were the lights of the Clam
Shop, where we were greeted warmly and
made to feel at home. What I yearned for was
the broiled lobster with peanut dressing. I have
never encountered a lobster like it that even
came close to that.
” … Jimmy Eisenshtadt.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE … The wealthy man-
ufacturer regarded the young man pleading
for his daughter’s hand with deep suspicion …
“I wonder,
” he said, “if you’
d be so anxious to
marry my Rosalie if I didn’t have a penny?”
“I think I’
d love her twice as much,
” vowed
the suiter fervently.
“Get out,
” cried the manufacturer. “We’ve
got enough idiots in this family already!”
CONGRATS … To Linda Nudell on her
birthday … To Michael Layne on his birthday
… To Dr. Joel Kahn on his birthday … To Sid
and Adrienne Finkelstein on their 55th anni-
versary.
Email dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.
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A Taste of History
TOP: The Dearborn Inn
BOTTOM: A Colonial Home near
the Dearborn Inn
LEFT: A place setting at the
Dearborn Inn
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