On a Sunday in January, 2006 I called Mamie's in Hampden to check on their hours. I heard a strange recording. A woman was speaking and crying at the same time. She said how sorry she was they closed at the end of the year,(2005) all the employees were there at the end, everyone so sad to be leaving. It was most puzzling, and after thinking about it and recalling that I had seen rehabbing in the area, I thought perhaps her rent had been raised and she could not afford to remain.
Then I heard she was relocating in a former police station not too far away. This building was also being refurbished. At the Hon Festival I spoke with a man who owns a shop on The Avenue. He said they were having problems with renovations; something about the ovens and possibly lead that had to be removed.

Mamie's had always been a favorite of ours, so I hope you can enlighten me as to if they are or will be opening and where.

Thank you.

Barbara Reiner