Purple onion and Al’s are still around but haven’t been 24hrs since covid. But yeah, 3 very large populations of Lebanese, Arabs, and Greeks. The Greeks opened the grocery stores at the turn of the 20th century.

Purple onion was my spouse’s and my go to after her late evening shifts. We lived within walking distance of the one in Homewood. I still miss that place.

And created the Special Dog at Pete’s and Gus’s, blessed be