Unicorn owner hits milestone, shuns spotlight
Lansing City Pulse
Written by Lawrence Cosentino
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
On a regular Wednesday night, Anastasios Malvetis — Tommy to his friends — patrols the smoky Unicorn Tavern, greeting regulars with a leathery bag of old lines.
“Next time you come in here, bring a woman!” he tells a man at the bar.
Malvetis, who will be 85 today, has owned the landmark North Lansing bar 29 years.
That’s greasy North Lansing, not artsy Old Town. In a neighborhood filling up with pottery, scented soaps, doggie sweaters and “antiques” half Malvetis’ age, the Unicorn remains a working class den with live blues, a pool table and NASCAR-themed pinball.
At the far end of the bar, patron Jack Loynes nurses a Miller Lite. In his teens, Loynes came here each day after work at a foundry near Motor Wheel. Now he’s certified white-collar — a psychiatrist and professor at Michigan State University — but he’s still here…
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