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Stephen Kovacs

Source: US Social Security Death Index
Name: Stephen Kovacs
Birth: 09 Dec 1922 Michigan
Last Place of Residence: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan 48209
Death: 21 Mar 1996

Source: Find A Grave
Stephen Kovacs
BIRTH 29 Dec 1922
DEATH 21 Mar 1996 (aged 73)
Dearborn, Wayne County, Michigan
BURIAL Woodmere Cemetery, Oakridge, Lot 470 Grave 4, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
MEMORIAL ID 102883467

Source: Detroit MetroTimes, October 21, 2009
~~~Excerpt from story titled Last Call? by Detroitblogger John~~
... Kovacs bar is one of the few places in Delray with the lights left on, an outpost for the handful of people who still work or live here, at Detroit's wild edge....
The building the bar is in was built in 1889. It began as the Angus Smith Hotel with a restaurant and beer garden selling cigars from a manufacturer on site. After Prohibition and a few name changes, a Hungarian named Micl Kovacs moved to Detroit from Ohio, bought it and turned it into a tavern. His son Steve took over when he returned from World War II and the old man died. "He marched all the way through Europe in the infantry," Bob says. "He was a great big guy, a strong son of a bitch." Kovacs died in 1996, and his wife put his bar up for sale. Bob snapped it up.

Source: Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, Sunday, February 2, 1975, Page 142
KOVACS BAR, 6986 W. Jefferson, 842-9774. Steve Kovacs, owner of the bar begun in 1934 by his immigrant parents, offers patrons a gypsy quintet on Saturday nights (no cover charge). The musicians are more Slovak than Hungarian in background, but their music is pure, heartrending gypsy. Two of them, the violist and the cymbalomist, are in their mid-'70s. Off Jefferson, visit Al's Bar, at West End and South Sts., and Steve Szabo'B Hugar-ian import store, at 434 S. West End. "A lot of the young people come to Delray now to see the heavy industry," Mary Kovacs said. It does indeed have a terrible fascination all its own. "We'll keep going as long as people come," said Steve.

Address 6986 W. Jefferson St., Detroit, MI. is for "Kovacs Bar"

Source: nailhed blog Site includes photographs and historic background of Kovacs Bar (Demolished November 2017)

Photo, January 28, 2017, source Deskgram - wonderstobehold post

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