Wednesday, March 1, 2017
I have fond memories of the whole family having lunch at my dad's store, Mohawk Paint & Glass, or "The Store" as we called it. We'd walk across Albany street to the Albany Pork Store, owned by my grandfather Emil and my mom's uncle Robert. We'd get a loaf of Mount Pleasant rye bread, barrel pickles, and slices of roast beef, turkey, ham, and liverwurst. We'd then cover one of the glass cutting tables with "table cloth", made from the same roll of paper we used for wrapping sheets of glass. We always had a jar of mustard and mayonnaise ready in the refrigerator. My mom usually stopped by Gershon's Deli on the way over and picked up potato salad, macaroni salad, and cole slaw. The only thing possibly better was when we'd get Michigan style hot dogs from the Newest Lunch Café. Those were (and still are) the best hot dogs ever made. -Bill
