Posts Tagged ‘Tommy Bahn’

Have we had enough of television news on e-coii pandemics, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, U.S. floods, cop shows, food shows and *Dr. Oz*?  Well, on Dr. Oz’s Wednesday show, while a woman asked, “Why do I have an orgasm during a bowel movement?”, the columnist yukily then turned to more urgent matters like blotting post-holiday sun tan oil and heading later to some favorite neighborhood saloons. Cissy and Tommy Bahn’s Cousin Hugo’s, twixt crossroads of Manchester and Laclede Station Road, have kept the aura gong of their clubby clone of yesteryear’s  Busch’s Grove that opened in 1939. Add to that, St. Louis-style barbecued spareribs were served from the pits at Annie and Jim Lucas’ Baumann’s Fine Meats. Tommy, a onetime host at the old Balaban’s, recalled how a couple in their 80s had a reunion there after having not seen each other for 45 years. “Both their spouses had died and it was so poignant,” commented Bahn. “For 20 years, Clayton High School teachers come in and let their hair down after graduation.” Other regulars have been Ryan Franklin, Jackie Smith and Charlie Dooley. On to the fourth owner of Pat’s in the Oakland/Tamm nabe of Dogtown, where bonifaces Ty and Joe Finn dropped a few bon mots of their wish list: 45-degree parking to alleviate the traffic jams; a farmers’ market at Clayton at Tamm avenues; traffic lights at Oakland and Tamm, because “it’s so dangerous” and enthusiasm for newly-elected 24th Ward Alderman Scott Ogilvey. Battered and cooked to order spicey fried chicken is de rigueur there.

Shelly Seawall with daughter Lola and Tommy Bahn

 

 

Not everybody is on the same page regarding the City of St. Louis’s new indoor smoking ban. An emailed newsletter this week from Ald. Kacie Triplett, a co-sponsor of the city’s bill, mistakenly uses language from St. Louis County’s different law to explain what will happen in the city. . .Europe, Jasmin Redzic‘s club tucked away into a nifty former transformer building on 14th Street, seems to be getting a small facelift: a sign and an awning. Without them, you probably have to know where this gem of a nighspot is to find it. . .Staind singer/rocker Aaron Lewis has a bit of news for the baseball hot stove league. Lewis told rock music website Newscreep this week that he will be one of four participants in a reality TV show about hunting on the Outdoor Channel. Among his fellow competitors will be “JC Whitely, the bull-riding Iron Man” and a St. Louis Cardinal baseball player.” The columnist bets the Cards skipper Tony LaRussa, an avid animal rights activist, will not be tuning in. . . Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder, is telling tech types that his newest venture, @Square, will have offices in NYC and San Francisco (where Jack has homes) – and in St. Louis, where Dorsey already has a key to the city. . . Myron Kopperman is back from Florida and is in residence at Kopperman’s on the CWE. . . Tommy and Cissey Bahn celebrated the good times at Truffles over another sucessful year at their Cousin Hugo’s. . . And, a nice person from the Missouri Auditor’s office notes that her office, not the Secretary of State’s office, writes the fiscal notes that will be attached to initiatives that the Secretary of State will put on ballots. Everybody’s got a job.