Nemo's, a beer and burger joint and a mainstay on Michigan Avenue in Detroit's Corktown, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in business this Thursday.
Neal Rubin of the Detroit News writes:
Here's how long Nemo's Bar has been around: Nemo Springstead used to loan money to Red Wings to tide them over during the off-season.
The saloon on Michigan Avenue in Detroit has outlasted the days of underpaid hockey players. It has outlasted Nemo, who died in 1982.
It has outlasted three-martini lunches, a labor leader's exploding Lincoln Continental and Tiger Stadium, whose closure in 1999 was theoretically going to shutter the bar, too.
"Fifty years in the bar or restaurant business? That's 10 lifetimes," Tim Springstead, 57, the baby of Nemo and Ginny's five kids, tells Rubin.
