 
Talleman1
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Post Number: 15
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 1:16 pm: |    |
There was I think a building on the site of east side Gratiot and Vernor and bound by St. Aubin. Does anyone know what happened to the place? |
Rax
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Post Number: 67
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 1:35 pm: | |
1942 was a long time ago. I'm not really sure. |
Professorscott
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Post Number: 971
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 1:36 pm: | |
Where is that in relation to where Joe Muer's was? |
Talleman1
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Post Number: 16
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 1:48 pm: | |
Joe Muer's I do think was the place that was there. |
Fury13
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Post Number: 3427
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 1:53 pm: | |
The Joe Muer building sat vacant and vandalized after Muer's left, and it was demolished a few years ago. |
Professorscott
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Post Number: 972
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 2:01 pm: | |
The property was taken over by a bank and they demolished it in 2002. They were supposed to sell the land to Rite Aid for a drug store, but that fell through. Two of Joe's managers kept the name alive for a few years as Joe Muer's Grill in Southfield, but that closed in 2004.
The family is still in the food business, a little. Susan (Joe's niece) runs a cookie shop on Mack in St. Clair Shores; David (a distant cousin) runs the Blue Pointe over in the East English Village area, on Cadieux I think. |
Rax
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Post Number: 72
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 2:10 pm: | |
Doesn't the Muer family own Big Fish in Madison Heights? Crusie and Muer's in Rochester? Gandy Dancer, etc? |
Detroitnerd
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Post Number: 1697
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 2:13 pm: | |
What did that intersection look like then? I've often wondered. There seems to be a big wide-open right-of-way behind Gratiot there bearing east from what the intersection is now, and I often wonder if that was the "old" Vernor, or High Street. |
Professorscott
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Post Number: 975
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 3:40 pm: | |
Rax,
The Muer family sold all of the restaurants and the use of the name to Landry's Seafood Restaurants of Houston, Texas. All the restaurants that once were owned by Chuck Muer's company are Landry's now. The sale took place in the spring of 2002. No Muer is involved with that company or those restaurants anymore.
Prof. Scott |
Rax
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Username: Rax
Post Number: 74
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 3:42 pm: | |
Right on. Thanks! |