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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Valmas' Brothers Restaurant

There was a menu from Valmas' Brothers Restaurant for sale on ebay, and it got me remembering the old restaurant. As I recall, there were 3 Greek brothers that formed the restaurant, just can't remember the names. Perhaps one of them was Frank, and a waitress named Edith. And 5 cent cokes, and 10 cent hot dogs, and a warm place to wait for the schoolbus on cold Winter mornings. Package goods, Pepsi machine on the corner, and a good place to find customers that perhaps needed their shoes shined. An old stand up wooden phone booth inside, contertops, barstools, and booths. And neon signs, and neon outlines in the windows, and you could trick innocents to stand too close to the glass outside, and the transformer would give them a mild shock. The things we did to amuse ourselves...

2 comments:

  1. Their names? If I recall they were John, Paul and George (really). My fondest memories are the beef stew and the penny scale.
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  2. This was my husbands grandfathers restaurant. His name was George Caloyianis. I never met him but heard about the restaurant many times. His daughters are still living in Catonsville.
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