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Doug Moe: Avenue serves up familiar faces

SKIP ZACH would have loved Friday. Nothing, except maybe signing with the Chicago Cubs, which Skip did in 1951 after playing for Edgewood High and UW, made the Avenue Bar proprietor prouder than seeing his restaurant hopping. If many of the faces were familiar, all the better.

Friday noon there were plenty of recognizable faces at the Avenue…at the big center table, the Friday lunch crowd included UW Chancellor John Wiley and his wife, Georgia;