On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:29:00 GMT, "L, not -L" >
connected the dots and wrote:

~
~I have not been, nor can I find anyone in my circle of acquaintances
who
~have. However, here's a link to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
newspaper
~reviewer thought.
~
~http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ent...1?OpenDocument
~
~The article references Al Baker's; Al's closed in the '90 when the
owners
~decided to retire. For many years, Al Baker's was the place to be
seen; the
~customers were mostly repeat well-to-do business men, politicians,
their
~suck-ups and a sprinkling of starry-eyed special occasion couples.

Ah. I see a familiar name or two, and oddly enough, some of the
family politics.

Thanks
maxine in ri