Gibran Member Username: Gibran
Post Number: 22 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 11:24 pm: | |
Okay...memory lane..who has good Milroy stories...from Kelly road... |
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 224 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 11:43 pm: | |
Only the "best place to go for fish and chips"! Mom took us kids for dinner there. We put sugar in our water there, when we ate in and didn't stand in line for a couple of boxes of square fish and french fries. It was always good, take home or eat in! The best tartar sauce! |
Malcovemagnesia Member Username: Malcovemagnesia
Post Number: 14 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 3:15 am: | |
I used to dine there with parental units when I was a kid (in the 70's and possibly the early 80's). Ahh, fuzzy memories. When did it close and why? And why did the building disappear? Was it demolished or did it burn down or? |
Ja1mz Member Username: Ja1mz
Post Number: 6 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 4:56 am: | |
Milroys..on Gratiot and Toepfer...I remember the long carry-out line on one side of the store had its own hallway. One item one the menu was called "Bits and pieces"..It was a pile of fish that had broken off the regular size stuff after cooking. Went there on many Fridays with my parents.. |
Ja1mz Member Username: Ja1mz
Post Number: 7 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 5:00 am: | |
here ya go.....
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Jskelly79 Member Username: Jskelly79
Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 6:24 am: | |
My Dad would take me there when Mom was out of town. He said it was the closest to what he remembered in England during the war. My sister was down there and looking for it and couldn't find it. When did it close. |
Malcovemagnesia Member Username: Malcovemagnesia
Post Number: 15 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 10:24 am: | |
AFAIK, Milroys had been closed since the early 80's. I heard that the shuttered building had burned down a few years later (I'm wondering "insurance job?"). Now the only thing you'll see in its space at Gratiot and Toepfer is a parking lot. I wish Milroys were still around. Oh b.t.w., welcome to the forum JSKelly (you've been registered since October; longtime lurker like me also?) |
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk
Post Number: 27 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 11:01 am: | |
There was that Scottish waitress that was ALWAYS there. I can't recall her name |
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 1383 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 11:15 am: | |
Fridays were huge at Milroy's. I remember going to the one in East Detroit a couple of times. The Catholic Church's revision of its policy about "no meat on Fridays" must have hurt business. |
Gibran Member Username: Gibran
Post Number: 25 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 11:45 am: | |
I used to cook there in High School and George had the secret recipes that made the batter real good...Urban Myth that Arthur Treachers was always trying to buy it from themmm...75-77 |
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary
Post Number: 143 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 1:05 pm: | |
As good Catholics in the late 70s, my friends and I would stop at the Kelly location on Fridays before riding off on our motorcycles for pursuing alcohol and adventure. Is the Kelly building still there? I remember the long awning. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 180 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 1:10 pm: | |
I always think its funny when an advertisement has a cartoon of the animal you're going to eat dressed as a chef, cooking one of it's own kind up for you. |
Gtat44 Member Username: Gtat44
Post Number: 41 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 2:09 pm: | |
Milroys was the best, the one on Kelly Road is where I went most often. After they closed, it was a funeral home for awhile, unsure what the building is used for now, if it's even still there. The Gratiot one was only used after a few large mugs of hops and barley at Mcgee's Lounge. |