Matchbook Monday returns today. JJ hasn't posted any local matchbooks in a while because well, JJ ran out of matchbooks to post. A reader sent these matchbooks in yesterday so enjoy this look at Jackson's culinary past. Feel free to add your stories or any information about them in the comments section. Readers can email copies of any old matchbooks to kingfish1935@gmail.com
The owner of this restaurant was a heroin smuggler. However, it gets even better. He operated the restaurant as an illegal alien. He didn't even have a passport. Read the stories below. You can't make this up. It is not known if he was married to Lady Heroin. He was convicted on January 22, 1985.
Here is one old favorite that is missed, Steak and Ale. The matchbook brings to mind the salad bar and the meat cleaver menus.
Next up is Little China Town.
This ad was published in the newspaper in 1981.
Then there is Cafe Creole.
8 comments:
Too bad about Fadlo's. I'm sure it was better than Keifer's and Krilaki's and Kristo's combined.
Steak and Ale was a good after work joint.
Can't say I specifically remember Fadlo's, but there's something in the back of my mind about a Mediterranean restaurant in the old Dobb's House (or whatever it originally was) on Office Park. That location has been through many incarnations; current BBQ. Steak and Ale has been commented on before. With that address, Little China Town had to be what later (after?) became Peking? Cafe Creole, no memory. Zoli's, a few happy hours back in the day.
11:20, ever tried Lulu Kabab or Yiayia's in Ridgeland, or Athenos in Madison?
I remember Cafe Creole fondly. Except for parking in the rear. That was kind of scary. Seems like I remember Zoli's for being one of those bars that served just enough food to keep a liquor license. Along the same lines as Studebaker's?
Correct re Zoli’s
I remember Little China Town. Don't believe it morphed into another restaurant. It was in the old McGehee Building that now has a church in it on the west side of the Interstate. Actually very good Chinese food.
Cafe Creole was on the east side of Ridgewood Rd. north of Adkins Blvd., I believe. That building has housed many different restaurants over the years.
I don't remember the Fadlo's restaurant but I agree it must have been in the Dobb's House/Huddle House Building.
The judge in that case has an interesting wikipedia profile. Apparently he was later impeached for perjury for lying about his involvement in getting a different drug dealer favorable treatment. While in prison, he continued to earn his salary as a federal judge and after serving his prison sentence, he was allowed to retake the bar and get his law license back. I guess not much has changed around here in 30 years.
Georges Awad looka lika Borat, very nice!
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