Several years ago I did an interview with the gentleman who owned the Grill for several years. Mr. Rallis had it from the early 50's or so. It was called the Stag Grill for awhile (anyone who has been in the restaurant and seen the paintings will understand why). He had to change the name to the Rallis Grill when a Catholic priest complained thinking it was a men's stag club, lol! Anyhow, one of the first restaurants there was called the Minerva, it goes back I think until the 1920's. He gave me an old zeroxed copy of one of their menu's, along with a couple of his menu's from 2 of his other locations, the restaurant in the Flamingo on Stone, and the other from a lunch place he had in a larger building downtown - I think his son ran that one. I was asked to write up a story about it, but have gotten side-tracked with other research, but I bring it up because I thought I'd make some copies of what I have and thought we should put them somewhere, perhaps the Historical Society? If anyone has any ideas, let me know.
There's a funny story about a shooting that took place in there (I found the newspaper clipping) that was after Mr. Rallis owned it. No one got really hurt, which is why it can be considered somewhat humorous.
Catherine
Does anyone know what they're going to do about the building? Will look awfully weird if they take it completely down. Wig-o-rama will have no neighbor on the block.
