BlankI remember Patmore’s (sp) aka Herb’s; many an afternoon was spent there before supper. From: Donald Bowman Sent: February 03, 2014 19:08 To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: LSJ Article on Golden Harvest The address of the Golden Harvest restaurant in the LSJ article is 1625 Turner Street; in Lansing. The Address of the Olympic Broil, former Golden Harvest is 1320 North Grand River That is where we used to hang out. The neighborhood we used to call North Town is now called Old Town. Freddie’s Donuts is long gone. DRB From: msb-alumni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:msb-alumni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marcia Moses Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 5:36 PM To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: LSJ Article on Golden Harvest Thanks, Don. Glad the building is still a restaurant. I’m surprised the article didn’t give an address. So you don’t get over to that neighborhood these days? Marcia and Rob From: Donald Bowman Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 5:28 PM To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: LSJ Article on Golden Harvest No Marcia, according to my understanding, this is not Golden Harvest we hung out in back in the day. Originally the drive in restaurant Dog & Suds, which, when we were in high school, was known as Golden harvest is now called Olympic Broil; and, yes, they are still going. I believe Olympic Broil is just North of Willow, on the East Side of North Grand River Avenue , on the South bank of the Grand River. We should call Dan Smarrow, and ask him about it; the last I knew, he still lives in that neighborhood, and, frequents restaurants in that area. DRB From: msb-alumni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:msb-alumni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marcia Moses Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 5:06 PM To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: LSJ Article on Golden Harvest Is this the same Golden Harvest we hung out at back in the day? If so, glad it’s still going. Marcia and Rob From: Steve Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 4:53 PM To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [msb-alumni] LSJ Article on Golden Harvest With a skull, fork and knife, a community built around breakfast . The sign on the front door of Golden Harvest says the line starts on the outside "unless balls of fire are falling from the sky," and so it does, in wind-whipped snow, blazing heat and every other sort of weather every weekend of the year. More proof of the city's affection for the bite-sized north Lansing diner and its plate-smothering breakfasts is hardly necessary. But there are the stickers to consider. You have almost certainly seen them: a skull with a crossed fork and knife underneath, a jentacular Jolly Roger, no words to explain what it means. In Lansing, of course, a lot of people know. Thousands of those stickers have gone out the door of Golden Harvest over the past eight years, and they mark a loosely constructed community in a town where it's not odd to wear your breakfast loyalties on your sleeve or, at least, on your rear windshield. "It doesn't say our name, so it's not even like advertising," said Vanessa Vicknair. "It's more like a secret handshake or something. She and her husband, Zane, have owned Golden Harvest since 2004, near the start of its sixth decade. They've given the place a particular character, multiplying the tchotchkes, playing music at barroom volumes, pushing greasy breakfast fare in ambitious and toothsome directions. She calls the restaurant "a pretty strong unintentional community," built around long waits, a policy of sharing tables and sense that the clientele cuts across categories. People who display the stickers are "almost more letting their freak flag fly," she said, than merely giving a thumbs-up to the food. Emily Dievendorf sports one of the stickers on the back of her gray Saturn Ion, not least because "once you've had biscuits and gravy at Golden Harvest the dish is ruined for you, as anywhere else it won't compare. When she runs into someone else sporting the same, her most basic reaction is to "assume that I might actually enjoy talking to them," she said, which she considers a curious reaction. "When you go in, there are Democrats and Republicans and there are people who are a little punk rock and there are people who are kind of granola and there are people who are tatted up and people who look pretty preppy," said Dievendorf, who is the managing director of Equality Michigan, a lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender rights advocacy group. If the clientele has something in common, it's that "they seem to be independent thinkers," she said. But the stickers can also function as "a badge of honor," said Cody Hinze, "a way of saying, 'Hey, I'm willing to stand in line for two hours to have a 'cup' of coffee and some hash browns.' Hinze, a former designer and multi-media manager with Lansing State Journal, created the skull-and-silverware logo, after a fashion, carving it into a 38-pound pumpkin at the counter of Golden Harvest in the fall of 2005. Zane Vicknair said he knew quickly it should be the logo. "We put it on our menu, put it on our front door, put it on a T-shirt," he said. Not long after, a Lansing artist named Tom Sheerin, "a sign and sticker guy for all of my adult life," started putting it on stickers. Seeing the stickers out in the world - and they've been spotted as far off as Dubai - has since become a sort of augury for Vicknair, a sign "that I'm in the right place at the right time. "It's a happy indication, because it's connected to us. I feel very connected to them in a weird way. Golden Harvest is not the only Lansing restaurant in the sticker game. Fork in the Road, an artisanal diner on the city's west side, has been putting out stickers with a split-fork logo (also sans words) since this past summer. Fork in the Road co-owner Jesse Hahn reads other people displaying those stickers as an endorsement of the Fork in the Road's food and its practice of local sourcing. "We think it's really cool that they want to tell the city. There are even a handful of cars in the city that sport stickers from both restaurants. If they are marks of loyalty, they don't seem to be exclusive. It all invites a certain amount of speculation about the power of brunch. "Brunch is for debate and recovery while dinner is for polite conversation," Dievendorf said. "We are spent at dinner but we bring our whole selves to breakfast. "This," she added, "is an important subject. Inside Golden Harvest, there is a skull and silverware made from an old silver bowl, one cut with a laser out of brushed steel, two in stained glass. A rustier version hangs outside. The stickers once marked a relatively small circle, Hinze said, but that circle has grown. "I hope all those people understand that the sticker on their car represents goodness," he said. "It's hard to put that into words. Jim in Detroit James A. Prather Central Michigan University: 1980 Michigan School for the Blind: 1974 "Fire Up Chips" "Ungh, ungowa, Raiders still Got the Power!"