Former employee reaches out

A former Dubrow's employee named Louis Adorno reached out via email, having stumbled upon this blog.  He used to work at the Dubrow's in Manhattan in the 60's,  where he says he "washed dishes I got lucky and got asked to work the counter."  He recalled both Max Tobin and Paul Tobin.  He says Max "would get mad when I ate the watermelon and took to many olives" and he recalled taking food to an apartment in Brooklyn after Max died.

Drop a line in the comments if you remember Louis!

Another Dubrow's reference

My cousin Steven Green sent me this screenshot he found of a reference to Dubrow's in the novel Revolutionaries by Joshua Furst.    While being sold as fiction, it has a character named Abby Hoffman, and it is that character's wife who apparently scrounged for food at Dubrow's.  Who knows whether that really happened or not, but it makes a good story... 

Request from a reader

Larry Paul writes with a request for anyone who remembers Dubrow's using china:

"Can you help me with a series of articles I am writing on cafeterias for a facebook page geared to people who appreciate and collect  restaurant china.

I am working on a post about Dubrow’s, based mostly on your blog spot information. The cafeterias I am writing about used china that was crested for them with ,usually , their trademarks. I went through your blog and found a couple of photos showing china (1940 crew photo &  A. Harriman in 1950’s). The 40’s photo has design border on the cups, and the 50’s photo seems to just have a dark line band. One of the posts on your blog mentions silver flatware that is crested, and I found a tray on WorthPoint with “Dubrow”s” marking. So far I have found no “Dubrow’s” crested china.

My question is - do you know of any china that was crested for Dubrow’s?" 

Anyone able to help Larry Paul out?  Comment on this post!