Auger. now 47. recalls that he didnt like the business-"it was very depressing". He has retained some of this lovehate feeling about it ever since. His immigrant father had watched "at least 10" restaurants collapse in ventures around Washington during Blackies youth (failures which Blackie ascribes to his fathers desire to do everything instead of "using a system"). yet he had been insistent that his son go into the business himself. But it took a strike at the Los Angeles Examiner in 1946. putting pressman Auger out on the street. to get him behind a hot stove at The Minute Grille. Today Blackie Augers assets may be well over $10 million.
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