Research into the life and times of Abe Zarour uncovered some interesting tales about his family, the family’s longtime restaurant and even a scribe who once profiled the unofficial Mayor of Main Street.
BEATEN BANDIT
A 17-year-old found out the hard way not to mess with the Zarzour patriarch.
Charles Zarzour, Abe Zarour’s father and founder of what became Zarzour’s Cafe, found himself in a scuffle with the teen one morning, according to an account in the Dec. 23, 1950, edition of the Chattanooga News-Free Press.