Our Town With Host Andy Ockershausen - Homegrown History

Mel Krupin on building his first restaurant - "The funny thing is, he says to me, 'They’re beveled mirrors.' I came home to my wife and I said, 'What’s a beveled mirror?' She said, 'It’s a mirror that . . .The edge, they’ve got a little thing on the edge.' I thought 'a mirror’s a mirror. I shave every morning. I don’t see no edge.' Anyway, we built the restaurant." Mel Krupin, The Tummler - Legendary DC Restaurateur A Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen and this is Our Town. We have a delightful guest today, a man who is so respected in the city of Washington. I wish he still had his own joint. Mel, you don't mind me saying that. Mel Krupin is a relic from a time when what made a restaurant big in D.C. wasn't its celebrity chef or its food; it was the big man who ran the joint, "The Tummler”, who knew where to see Caspar Weinberger or Jack Kent Cooke or Mo Siegel or who else and he could kibitz with the customers. Tummler, a person who makes things happen. That's our Mel Krupin. Welcome to Our Town,