Brad Hutchison wrote:A guy I work with keeps insisting there was a Tommy's on Old Detroit in RR, by Salmon Dave's. Is that true?
Well, yes and no, kind of.
There were two, over there.
It started on Old Detroit Road on the north side in the middle of the street. "Tommy's" was
owned by legendary Westside party master Tommy Todia, where the old bar "The Office"
was. As he grew it eventually became "The Hairy Buffalo" no relationship to the current
Harry Buffalo in Lakewood, but was again another legendary party place. As Tommy grew
older and he might have closed for some time, re-opened as "Tommy's" back where Salmon Dave's is now.
No flafels, no TNT, no chocolate malts, but plenty of drunk hippies.
No idea what ever happened to Tommy. But a wealth of local drinking/bar/restaurant
information can be gleaned from Parnell at the West End. As so much of it centered or
took place with him there either working, drinking, or the owners coming through his
places.
FWIW