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To: Jamestown1630

No, I don’t have a restaurant, but back when I was 19 years old, I was the head chef (well, only chef...) of the Sternwheeler Restaurant on the Reuben E. Lee, a floating restaurant in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach, CA.

John Wayne used to eat there, and I cooked him one of his last steak dinners. He gave me a $5 tip and told me that was the best damn steak he had had in years. I was too flabbergasted to do more than stutter thanks back at him.

Sadly, it is no longer there...

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/restaurant-70570-newport-reuben.html

http://www.octhen.com/2005/03/reuben-e-lee.htm

33 posted on 08/31/2016 5:25:24 PM PDT by EasySt (Time to build that gulch..)

That is such a nice experience and story to tell!

-JT

38 posted on 08/31/2016 5:30:34 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")

Gonna give up the recipe?

39 posted on 08/31/2016 5:30:55 PM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)

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