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Reader remembers an earlier Elmer’s
We just received our copy of the Mid-county Memo and the lengthy article telling of the closing of the Elmer’s Restaurant on Northeast 82nd Avenue (“Elmer’s exit ends era on 82nd Avenue,” December 2008).
While this was an early restaurant of Walt Elmer’s, it was not his first. During my high school years (from) 1938 to 1942 on Southeast 48th Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard, there was a hangout called Elmer’s Milky Way. Walt Elmer and his wife ran it. It was a nice place, clean and respectable, where we were allowed to sit for way too long nursing cokes and socializing with our pals. No bad language allowed, no horseplay; if your dog was well mannered he could sit under the table with you.
Walt was a fixture in that neighborhood, just across the street from the old Mt. Tabor Theater and in the heart of the Franklin High School district. Parents were not worried when their kids spent a lot of time there.
There may even be some others besides me who remember (those) days. I am in my 80s and will never forget that nice man and his wife.
Ellen Riseley
Argay resident
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