Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The Long and Short of It

     We've got some long answers and some short ones this time but they all feature more coney/restaurant/bar-lounge talk. Who would have dreamed that such a topic would become the most prolonged item the Korner has ever covered?
     But, here goes!
     A short one first. Pam Claussen wrote, "my facebook friend, Jan Mallas, from Boone, writes, "the bar on Mamie was George's lounge and owned by George Doroumis (sp)? My mom worked there also! My dad's old friend, Butch Carpenter, now deceased, had the recipe. It included suet and cumin."
     The Kornerman says, "you'll recall that in the last edition we obtained the correct spelling for George's last name right off his tombstone. It is Douroumis."
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     And, Curtis Dale Cox Jr. wrote, "I have several stories about Jim's Coney Island on Ninth Street and also about Mrs. Fox popcorn stand, but you have heard so many, it would be, somewhat, repeating. Keep up the great work. I know Booneites from around the world enjoy it."
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     Now, into more length and breadth on this important subject.
     Mark Tompkins wrote, "just forwarded two articles on this booming subject. The first shows that there is no one recipe that works everywhere. There are lots of variations so the "world famous" Boone Coney style should be added to the list. A few years ago, in Cincinnati, I had the misfortune of having one of their coneys slathered in the vile sauce which includes cinnamon and maybe arsenic. Well, maybe not the arsenic. Let someone with ample ambition define the Boone Coney recipe and patent it!"
     Mark sent lots of material about coney recipes in various areas. The Kornerman will offer some of the highlights.
     There's a Detroit style, a Flint style, characterized by a dry hot dog topping made with a base of ground beef heart, which is ground to a consistency of fine ground beef. A Jackson style uses a topping of either ground beef or ground beef heart, onions and spices.
     Tis' said that a "real" Coney Island hot dog is a natural-casing beef or beef and pork European-style Vienna Sausage having a natural lamb or sheep casing, topped with a beef heart-based sauce, one or two stripes of yellow mustard and diced or chopped white onions.
     A Coney dog is not to be confused with a chili dog, a more generic ground beef-based, chili-topped hot dog. It is also not to be confused with what is called a "coney" in the Cincinnati area, which is a chili dog topped with the city's distinctive style of chili, along with onions and cheddar cheese. That Cincinnati chili features main ingredients of chili con carne and spice, such as cinnamon, cloves, allspice and chocolate (how did that get in there?)"
    Not you, but, back in 1913, some residents in the New York area found the term "hot dog" made them a bit queasy. They were taking that term too literally, assuming there was dog meat in the sausage itself. Their protests were heard and the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce banned the use of the term "hot dog" on restaurant signs on Coney Island.
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     Jerry Manriquez indicated he has been reading about Danny Canakes in the Korner and sent a copy of an old newspaper article about Danny's wedding. It appeared in the Boone County Pioneer, August 14, 1922. Big headlines......"Boone Man Weds Detroit Girl; Will Live here."
     The story writes that Dan is the proprietor of the Rialto Luncheonette. Must have been a name change later.
     Jerry had one other nugget of interest. He wrote, "my wife's uncle, Thomas M. Lacey, was part owner of Tom's Clothing Store in Boone. He and his partner started at 1001 Story Street, which is where Lynn's Lounge was located.
     In 1910, the clothing store was moved to 823 Story at the corner of Ninth and Story. That later became the Western Auto location which burned down and is now a park. Thomas Lacey passed away in 1914 but the store continued into the 1930's.
     P.S. The Kornerman sees, via a newspaper ad, that new fall and winter suits for men of the younger set were going for $10 to $30 at Tom's Clothing.
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     Boone Area Deaths: Michael Osborn, 62, formerly of  Prairie City. Boone survivors include his mother, Corinne Osborn, and his sister, Penny Osborn, both of Stratford.........Bill Barnes, 89, Madrid.
In the 70's, lived on an acreage near Madrid. Worked as a psychologist for Heartland in central Iowa and served on the Boone County Fair Board. Boone area survivors include his wife, Kathy, daughter Shannon, and her children, Izabelle and Elleana Meier, of Madrid.
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