[msb-alumni] Re: LSJ Article on Golden Harvest
- From: Karen Carter <kcmm54@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 23:54:16 -0500
Hay Terry, I use to do the same thing. I think Freddies was the best and
still is. I hate that they are not around anymore. Of course if they
were. I would probably weight 800 pounds. I love Freddies doughnut..
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Terry Posont <terryt52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would go to Freddys don't shop and buy a whole dozen of day-old donuts
> for a quarter. Then I would go back to the dorm and eat the whole bag of
> donuts shop, and buying a whole dozen donuts bagel for $.25. That I go back
> to the dorm and eat the whole thing.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:08 PM, "Chris Rasmussen" <chrisnzella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> *Freddy's Doughnuts! Now that's what I'm talkin' about. Dad used to make
> frequent doughnut runs for us at home. *
>
> *Chris Rasmussen*
>
> *From:* peggy bowen <sunflower.54@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 04, 2014 1:02 PM
> *To:* msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [msb-alumni] Re: LSJ Article on Golden Harvest
>
> Hi. I loved there burgers and fries. I went there a lot. I also
> enjoyed Freddy's doughnuts as well. Peg
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Donald Bowman <donaldbowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Monday, February 03, 2014 7:08 PM
> *Subject:* [msb-alumni] Re: LSJ Article on Golden Harvest
>
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> 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 <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 <donaldbowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> *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 <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 <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> *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.
>
>
>
>
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