The old Zippys Pizza Express

Back when I was growing up in that neighborhood, that building used to be Sal's Deli ... a great old-time Jewish deli with fixtures from the 1940s.

The city keeps a directory of pizza store managers?

The city directory will generally list the owner or manager of any type of business, whether it's a pizza place, a shoe repair shop or whatever. But yeah, it's more fun to imagine there's a golden hard-cover directory at City Hall behind glass that the mayor smashes when he gets a bad pizza and wants to know who to blame.

I thought it was Sid's Deli. I think there was a short-lived sandwich shop in there after that.

I lived up the street December 1996-February 2012. It was always VIP Pizza.

University barbers and Eighth street video were also in the building at one time.

My Full House and Monday Special/Pepperoni pizzas were served up zippy when I stopped in the other day.

I love V.I.P!

Paul, I nominate you as Mr. Duluth! Your knowledge is second-to-none and if you don't know it, you sure as hell know where to get the information.

I thought Frank Nichols was Mr. Duluth.

I remember Zippy's Pizza, I even remember the logo, it was a car, going zippy. Pizza was good as far as I can remember.

I really honestly read that as "Hitler's Critters."

Hitler's Critters - the place to buy all of your very stern pets.

I grew up a block and a half from there and hung out there a lot. Me and a few other neighborhood kids sometimes  used to work for pizza and pop. 

Remember Mike Ouellette and Dave Willis very well. Zippy' was a small chain started down in the Cities and owned by Mike's two brothers.  Knew all the shops that were there between 74-86.

Just happened across this article as I was watching a tarantula eat a gecko on Animal Planet and remembered back in my elem. school days I used to hang out at Hiller's Critters. Mr. Hiller had a tarantula he used to feed little, pink baby mice. 

Mr. Hiller had been a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers and still holds the record for most wins by a relief pitcher in a single season, 17, in  1974.

This was Sid's Deli. Owned by Sid Fink who lived on the same corner.  It was a sad day when it closed. What year was that?