Gushi,
Would it be the Glass Bar that you are talking about?
When we first came to Detroit back in 1967, my mother worked at the place "Mother's" that Melody is referring to on Conant and Mt. Elliott, but it was called "Tom's Cafe' back then. I wrote extensively about this place and this area in Shadows And Scars.
One day a friend of mine, after reading the book, asked me to take her to see the area where everything happened. My mother got killed right there on that corner, so you can imagine how we felt when we saw the place had "Mother's" written on both sides of the building. By the way, that building has a triangle shape to it.
The Glass Bar was one of the places I went looking for my mother that night. My school was Cooper Elementary.
God Bless
Johnnie Sue
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