Lewandoski's Market

Hi, I'm State Senator Mark Heisinger, representing Michigan's 30th Senate District. I'm outside the beloved Levin Duskies Market, right here in Grand Rapids, where over 100 years Levin Duskies has been the go-to meat market for people across the state of Michigan. Levin Duskies Market continues to be the place for quality meats, great customer service, and unique bullish charm. Come on in and join me inside, as I explore the iconic Les Michigan business. So, the building is from 1910 to now. How has this place stood around through walls, doors, whatever, and just never burned down or anything? I mean, this is such an icon. I just thought it was It looks Yeah, I know. It's a nice thing. Look at the place. It's got the walls. The first one that's up there has a nice picture. It's 1920s. And you can see that the back wall of the old ruler is the same thing. That over the years, nothing has been tweaked to the point where it's It is really interesting when we start going through the history. One of the fun things that you can say is there's a lot of work that comes with it. But you hear a lot of stories. And you've had Dutch people know where you've played. You talk long enough, you forgot, they have a common role in it. Same thing with the polls. And what we've noticed too is that the whether it's a wedding, a funeral, a baptism, maybe whatever it is, and especially Christmas and Easter, that's what you've got to have. I get some curious. What does it mean to have the last few days? What does it do? Is that There's roughly about a dozen of shows that are called. These halls, this is their big fundraiser for the year. So they go all out and the course will be a n And so it's very busy week for us if you're prepared. But it is telling the kickoff. Because the hall is just a form of the season of eating. It's Yes. When you think about the uniqueness of people from the other hall celebrating their heritage and the food and everything that goes along with it, it's another really cool thing to think about is how you can combine it to your community. This is a hundred years that this has been a Polish market. Before it was Lebedowski's, there was another family that I don't know. They were Polish and that was just a corn market. I don't even know what had happened here. Because you just had to know what larger people were than you. And so the Rhymers, as they were called, they started this in 1923. Because that's when became the Grand Rhymes. So the buildings and all of that, it's only been a Polish market the whole time. We both shop here as adults. So the opportunity presented itself and we'll j Our customers, they want to go back. It's This is something that they feel so deeply about. It brings them back to memories of either being kids or whatever it is, of when they went to the Buczas in Pau0142acin. This is where we always came to get this stuff. It's been a stable business on the lower west side here, which was looking at the heart of the Polish neighborhood. Beyond us, there is the members of the Polish halls that we have a Grand Rhyme. There's one of them, a dozen of them. And to support them and keep everything going, this is all, we have plasque days coming up. All these things are very conservative efforts to keep the heritage going. It adds a different feel to the community part of it. It'supported, whether it's Valley Field, whether it's the Polish Hall, whether it's just one of our little comparison that has something going on, the schools that are around here. Everything matters. The community is everything we do.