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Roanoke Times, The (VA) - Saturday, April 18, 1998
HASAN , Malik Awadallah, 52, passed away Thursday, April 16, 1998, at his home in Vinton. He was born in Palestine on August 7, 1946, and emigrated to the United States at age 16, spending most of his life in Virginia. He moved to Roanoke in 1985 and began a successful business career. He is best remembered for his cheerfulness, honesty and kindness toward everyone. He owned the infamous Capitol Restaurant on the market for many years. Most recently, he established the Mount Olive Grill and Bar and was renovating the Community Grocery on Elm Avenue. He is survived by his wife, Hanan; three sons, Nidal , Anas and Eyad; a sister; four brothers; 33 nieces and nephews; 37 great-nieces and great-nephews, and scores of extended family. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 19, at Everly Funeral Home in Fairfax. Interment will follow in National Memorial Park in Falls Church. Friends may call the funeral home at (703) 385-1110.
So in regards to his ethnicity that his cousin so quickly avoided and wouldn’t disclose during his phone call with Shep Smith...Nadal Malik Hasan was Palestinian?
Interesting that there is no SSN listed for him. I wonder if he paid into the system or filed tax returns for his earnings from his successful business.
ROANOKE’S KING OF HOT DOGS DOESN’T WANT A QUEEN
Roanoke Times, The (VA) - Wednesday, May 16, 1990
Author: ED SHAMY
There’s a royal weiner war brewing in downtown Roanoke, and it could boil over by the weekend.
The titanic tube steak struggle pits the reigning king of dogs - the Roanoke Weiner Stand - against an upstart queen.
Just a few hundred feet from the weiner stand, which boasts itself “The Hot Dog King,” a new business opens late this week or early next. The Hot Dog Queen will peddle - you guessed it - hot dogs from its storefront opposite Fire Station No. 1.
All of which leaves Gus Pappas with a bad aftertaste, and even scholars with brains soft as fresh buns will understand why.
“I knew it was going to be there,” Pappas said Tuesday. “But I didn’t know the name.”
Then he called his lawyer.
Gus Pappas has a lot at stake. The Roanoke Weiner Stand (the king) has stood, usually tall, on the City Market since 1916. In Roanoke, a tender shoot of a city, 74 years loom as an eternity. As the Duke of Dogdom, Pappas’ job is to preserve the integrity of the institution.
Part of that task includes crushing any opposition that surfaces, like a bobbing frankfurter in a pot of boiling water, within the kingdom. The idea here isn’t to gently nudge aside fledgling would-be sausageurs.
The idea is to slice and dice royal hot dog impostors into a quivering pile of so many piggies-in-a-blanket.
“It ain’t the competition. I had a guy two inches from me and he went out, selling just hot dogs,” said Pappas. The king takes no prisoners.
It’s the name. It’s the logo, too. Roanoke Weiner Stand uses a crown. Hot Dog Queen, just two blocks away, will use a crown, too.
Malik Hasan is the entrepreneur behind the upstart queen dogs. He runs the Capital Restaurant on Market Street. He has ordered up a bunch of Hot Dog Queen hats, shirts and aprons, emblazoned with the crown emblem. He has a neon sign.
People already have asked him if he’s affiliated with the hot dog king down the street.
“I tell them no. But I’ll be cheaper,” says Hasan , the up-and-coming weiner prince.
“All the people from banks and the government buildings walk right past here to go to Hot Dog King or to the market. I can catch them before they get there,” he says.
Hasan also can catch railroad workers, if Norfolk Southern ever builds its office across Church Street.
Hasan grins coyly when you ask if his new venture is calculated to play on the Hot Dog King’s success.
“It’s just a nice name,” says Hasan , the queen.
“He’s leaning on somebody else’s reputation,” counters Pappas, the king. “We gotta notify the public that it’s not the Roanoke Weiner Stand. He’s gonna do pretty well for a while - until people see his quality ain’t the same.”
Of course, the king may not have the patience to let the experiment run its course.
“If it’s not legal, let him say it in front of the judge,” says Pappas. In other words, the king shoves the queen into the alligator-infested moat and hoists the drawbridge.
“It’s legal,” says Hasan . “I already registered the name.”
Edition: METRO
Section: VIRGINIA
Page: B-1
Record Number: 9005160156
Copyright (c) 1990 The Roanoke Times
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