Childhood treats - downtown restaurants
In the 1950s many of us were taken downtown by our parents for shopping or special films like "Lady and the Tramp", "Around the World in 80 Days", or "Forbidden Planet", mostly matinees but some evenings. Part of the excursion was lunch or dinner at some place satisfactory to our parents but not too daunting for us kids. Stauffer's, Victor Lims's, Greenfields, even Peter Pan, fit the bill, but a few times we went to a place on Clifford, just off Washington Blvd., called Childs. It had a somewhat colonial look with a multipaned bow window, and the entrance was a couple of steps up from the street with curved iron railings. It was smaller and quieter than the bustling Stauffer's, and I liked the atmosphere. So many of Detroit's lost restaurants pop up on nostalgia sites and the like, but I've never seen Child's mentioned. Does anyone remember that restaurant?
