Okay: about Mother's: I've lived in the Poletown area all my 50+ years. All I ever remember about Mother's is that someone painted it brown in around 1982, started working on it, and then pretty much abandoned it until the new coat of light salmon pink paint. It is rather cherry, isn't it?.

I've been told the lady in the painting was a "Fatima"-an islamic lady of light and mercy. I liked the painting in both incarnations, by the way.

The restaurant that was supposed to open was the now long torn down Butzel Library, not Mother's.

By the way, on the north side of Mother's now is painted a large arabic sign. Anybody know a translation?