"Liberace would earn a few extra bucks giving piano lessons to Don Horn and his brother, Marty Jr'
( "the Pine Room, helped launch the career of an 18-year-old piano player from Wisconsin named Wladziu Valentino Liberace. The flamboyant performer played at Pals for six months, earning $40 a week; the piano Horn bought especially for him is still in the bar, known as the Tap Room..."
( SO MUCH LIBERACE LATELY, HUH READERS?)
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BEING THE POP CULTURE NUT I AM I RAN TO "PAL'S CABIN" ABOUT 10 YRS AGO, WHEN I READ THIS BIT OF TRIVIA IN "THE STAR LEDGER", MY PARTNER, AT THE TIME, AND I DECIDED TO STAY & EAT WHILE WE SAW THE PIANO.
WE HAD A DELICIOUS STEAK DINNER--A BIT PRICEY, BUT AT THE TIME I THOUGHT WELL WORTH IT.
I HAVE ALSO ATTENDED THEIR CATERING HALL, MAYFAIR FARMS, FOR CATERED EVENTS--GREAT FOOD/GREAT SERVICE...
PAL'S CABIN CLOSES TOMORROW JUNE 1, 2013.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PIANO, GUYS?
HERE'S MORE ON "PAL'S CABIN":
Pals Cabin — a favorite haunt of Babe Ruth, who loved to chow down on its hot dogs after a round of golf at nearby Crestmont Country Club — would make any short list of Jersey food landmarks.
Don Horn, Jr, left, with his father Don
Horn, Sr, center, and brother Marty Horn at their legendary restaurant
Pals Cabin in West Orange.
"Our customers say, 'I can't believe you're closing'" says Marty Horn, grandson of the original co-owner and one of four brothers who now run Pals Cabin. Smiling, he added, "They don't have to pay my bills."
The bills include $20,000 a month for gas and electric and nearly $200,000 a year in property taxes.
"That's a lot of burgers we have to sell," Horn said. "Sometimes you have to look at it and say you have no choice financially."
The sprawling restaurant will eventually fall to the wrecking ball, but the name will live on; the family is considering opening Pals Cabin burger joints — on the order of Smashburger or Five Guys — in North Jersey..."
"It was the Depression, but people were flocking in here," Don Horn recalled.
His mother was the one who named the restaurant. "As Marty and Roy were leaving the building one day," Don Horn wrote in an unpublished history, "the topic of conversation became what to call the little summertime venture. Marty's wife, Kathryn ... said, 'Since you two are pals and it is a little cabin, so why not call it Pals Cabin?'"..."
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