I’m not familiar with this apparently long-gone restaurant on Route 66, but I’m posting it for those who may have recalled it.
Nevert Scorse, co-owner of the Green Lantern Cafe on Route 66 in Holbrook, Ariz., died on Nov. 23 at age 93, reported the Holbrook Tribune-News. She and her husband, Gilbert Henry Scorse, ran the restaurant for many years. Gilbert died in 2001.
I’ve found very little about the restaurant on the Internet, save for this image of a menu from the Green Lantern. These menus pop up on online auctions from time to time:
Family history indicates that my grandmother, Ina Violette (Archer) Koonce, Taylor, Mills, took my other grandmother, Mary (Minnie) Elizabeth (Williams) Case, to meet “the owners” of The Green Lantern Cafe who were good friends of Ina. I have no date but a guess might be around 1912.
Nevert and Gilbert Scorse were my parents. I was raised in the back end of the Green Latern. My siblings (2 brothers) and I all worked in the cafe during the 60’s.
The first Green Latern Cafe was opened by my Grandparents and the
second Green Latern Cafe was on Route 66.
I would guess that Mary Case knew my grandparents, Henry and Anna Scorse. Where was she from?
My folks wrote and stayed in touch with many who passed through town and stopped in at the cafe. Many were pen pals until they passed.
If anyone wants “Green Latern” history, just ask and I will try to answer.
Aunty Mary-Ann! I miss you sooo much. Im trying to find out about the history behind the family, want to help a gal out?
Maryann, Troy Miller (Margaret Eldridge’s son will be in Holbrook on Saturday Aug 16. He wants to stop and see you. Please call him at (610) 416-2219).
JoAnn Fitzpatrick
Maryann,
Sorry, I foregot about leaving a note at the Green Lantern Cafe website when I answered your email to me of 2 Feb 2010. I did, indeed, recall a ‘Green Lantern (Bar?)’ in what was in the ’60s the rundown section of Pasadena, CA and now renovated to be the best part of Pasadena.
Your Green Lantern Cafe of AZ (I had to look it up in my files) was apparently visited often by my ‘Grandma Mills’ who knew your anscestors. My sister told me she took my ‘Grandma Case’ there to meet the owners. There is no date so I don’t know if it was your parents or grandparents. Grandma Mills was very active in the LDS Church and at about that time was most likely living in Utah. I believe she met the owners passing through Holbrook, AZ and they wrote letters back and forth. That is as much as I know.
Dennis