Kelly’s was also home to the Punk Rock BBQ.
They took part of a fence from the bar’s lot and wrote on it: On Tuesday, evening, friends, former bar employees and patrons gathered outside the bar, which has been closed since it was sold, and held a vigil of sorts.
His secret ingredient, he would tell anyone: “Viagra.” He was a pretty good cook, and he was a consistent winner in a chili contest held by PLAV Post 10.
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Ruff looked like a blues cat, too: he wore his Kangol-style cap backwards, had a soul patch on the chin and spoke with a distinctive raspy voice. “Now they (bar patrons) call it the new Attic.” “We kind of stumbled on it by accident,” Ruff told The Review back then. That scene moved on over to Kelly’s and blues musicians and their fans were welcomed with open arms by Brad. That was after the former Attic bar, known back then as the “Home of the Blues,” on Jos. We first became acquainted with Brad and Patti when their bar became the new home to blues bands back in 2010. The bar was also known for hosting live music. Beers were cheap, and the bar enjoyed a reputation for its kitchen.īurger, hotdogs, Friday fish fries, you couldn’t beat it for the price and good eats.ĭuring the pandemic when bars were closed down, they did a bustling takeout business. Kelly’s is one the last surviving dive bars in Hamtramck. They were both planning to retire somewhere out west, maybe Arizona. Both Patti and Brad had just closed that previous Monday on the sale of their bar, located on Holbrook Ave. Compton initially fled the scene in a car that was following him, but police later arrested him without incident. One of the charges he faces is that he was driving with a high alcohol blood level.Įric Jermaine Compton, 39, of Eastpointe is facing multiple felony charges and being held on a $750,000 bond.
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Patti, 58, survived but has a crushed left leg.Įastpointe police say the driver who crashed into Brad and Patti has a prior drunk driving record, and that alcohol “is believed to be the contributing factor” in this accident. 15, around 7:30 in the evening when a driver blew through a stop sign and crashed into them, according to a press release issued by the Eastpointe Police Department. They went through an intersection in a residential area in Eastpointe last Sunday, Aug. He died while driving a motorcycle with his wife, Patti, on the back seat. This column is usually about the exciting, fun things happening in town.īut pardon us for making an exception to express our sorrow of the passing of Kelly’s bar owner Brad Ruff. Every once and a while Toast has to deliver bad news.
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