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Some people would bring their kids in and say, 'Hey, are you the big mafia guy? I wancha to meet my It was ridiculous." "Yeah," adds brother John, "They'd come in to see what we looked like and would be disappointed we weren't carrying knives or flashing guns." The Butsicaris brothers never denied knowing some of the reputed criminals but to this day protest their innocence of any wrongdoing. Sure I knew them," Jim says. "I grew up with some of them. But as a courtesy to me they told me they wouldn't hang out in my joint. They knew it would hurt our business.

But you wouldn't believe the innuendoes back then. Some people tried to imply my brother and I were go-betweens between the athlete and the mafia and some even implied we were fixing ball games." There's no doubt that the Lindell always has numbered an off-beat character or two among its customers a bookie here, perhaps a small-time hood there but that's typical of any business on the fringe of sports. "A bar isn't a church, you know," Jimmy says. "But I know youH find more so-called unsavory characters in your class places like the London Chop House than you ever will at the Lindell." Significantly, the Lindell has never been declared off limits by an organized sports club. More likely it's safer and purer than most other current sports hangouts because of its troubled past.

The Butsicaris brothers know they are sitting on a liquid gold mine, and they guard their investement carefully. Convenience is one of the major reasons behind the trade of any bar and sports hangouts are no different. LCCLI I CITY ZIP- STATE. add 4 sales tax and 75 postage sorry no G.O.D.'s "Ho called mo a fat, our-oyod bartender and ordorod mo to corvo him," recalls Jimmy Dutslcarls. A brawl ensued.

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Antiques-Imported Gifts- Collectors Plates ht Idc attic 16093 EUREKA. SOUTHG ATE 284-3231 2 blks. East of Telegraph, 1 Mile East of 1-75 Daily 1 1 to 5, Sun. 1 1 to 4, Closed Tuesday partner to replace their dad, who had died in 1957. They asked their close friend Alex Karras to join them Then the gambling scandal broke.

Karras and Green Bay's Paul Hornung admitted betting on football games and were suspended for a year. NFL investigators claimed known underworld figures had filtered into the LindeU's clientele and were associating with pro football players, principally the Detroit Lions. Karras was told to sell his interest in the Lindell or forget about foot-ball. While Karras was thinking about the ultimatum, the owners moved their present quarters and offically re-christened the bar the "Lindell AC Lounge." (The "AC" for "Athletic Club" was the ery team. That was the first stuff we put on the walk.

7 The owners also mounted hockey sticks alongside the baseball bats and were constantly breaking up the impromptu hockey games that would ensue between various celebrities. Once, when then Tiger pitcher Hank Aguirre refused an order to halt his sortie with Cleveland pitcher Gary Bell, Jimmy Butsicaris cracked his shins so hard with a miniature baseball bat that Aguirre missed several turns on the pitching mound. "That's when we decreed no more hockey games," says Jimmy. When the city condemned the building housing the old Lindell in late 1962, the owners searched for a new site and a third LookDettor If you want to project a quality image to Detroiters, advertise your product or service in peerless rotogravure. In Detroit, Detroit Magazine is the place.

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