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Junior's Waitress Retiring After 43 Years On The
JobEyewitness News' Carolina Tarazona
(New York -WABC, July 18, 2005) - It is home to some of the most delicious cheescakes in the world, but today at Junior's in Brooklyn the focus and praise wasn't on their famous dessert - instead on one of their beloved waitresses, who after 43 years is retiring from the New York institution.

Eyewitness News reporter Carolina Tarazona has her story.
Peter Tyson, Junior's Waiter: "Mary, she's outgoing, she's funny, she speaks her mind. She tells it like it is. That's Mary."

Byron Logan, Junior's Customer: "See, Mary knows what I want. All I got to do is show up and she's got everything ready for me already, and this comes nice and hot."

Boy, is there something about Mary - Mary Blevins, that is. She's been serving eggs, coffee, and whatever else at Junior's for 43 years. Tomorrow, it's time for Mary to throw in her apron.

Mary Blevins, Retiring Waitress: "They always come back and they always give me more than they give anybody else because I can remember everything they wanted. I never forget nothing."

Mary has a lot of memories of this place. She actually met her third husband - Frank - here, he was sitting in a chair here and he ordered scrambled eggs and a pumpernickel with extra butter.

Carolina Tarazona: "Why did you decide to leave now?"

Mary Blevins, Retiring Waitress: "My husband died four months ago and it was his last words: 'please go back home where you come from.'"

Mary came to Brooklyn from Virginia, and that's where she'll end up. With three grown children, six grandchildren and three great-grandkids, Mary isn't going take it easy. But she will take with her decades of moments, unforgettable faces and the last laugh.

Mary Blevins, Retiring Waitress: "They laughed at me, at the way I talked, when I came here - everything I went through - but you learn to cope with it and then one day I said 'get out of my face, I'll be here when you're gone.'"

Mary knows best and all here say she'll be tough to replace

It might have something to do with the 9,000 calories contained in each slice of cheesecake.

"sigh" oh well, I suppose I will have to stick with pancakes then

As to the retiring waitress, I suppose this means that the majority of the staff at Junior's 'doesn't' look like a 1960's -vintage Claudia Cardinale?

"sigh"

Nothing is as it should be in this world.....

"sniffle"

Re: "No, I actually like them filled with gorgeous women in peasant dresses who sing songs from the Old Country as they make fresh bagels every day, and smile sweetly at you as you enter their shop."

Here it Texas we definately don't have that (the bagel stores in Plano bite... it is like ordering a slice of "round" Wonder bread with either poppy seeds or salt or etc. on top).

However, BIG HOWEVER, many hot, hottie women come in to these establishments and pick up a few of said bagels ;-)

However, BIG HOWEVER, many hot, hottie women come in to these establishments and pick up a few of said bagels ;-)

A Typical Texas Bagel-Buying Biker Babe??

WOO HOO!! It's time to move to the Lone Star State!

I'm guessing also that the Typical Texas Lady isn't the sort of unfriendly, militant-feminist, Marxist trash that infests the State I'm in, either.

(((((wistful sigh)))))

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