Our Robyn Norwood, a longtime sportswriter for the LA Times, has this piece on FoxSports.com on a visit to legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden's favorite breakfast spot in Tarzana, California. Wooden, an icon in Southern California, died this week at age 99. From her story:
They began trickling into Vip’s Family Restaurant in Tarzana before 8 a.m. Saturday, the regular customers with their canes, a lawyer in a Bruins T-shirt, a family wearing UCLA caps.
Around the time John Wooden used to sit down for breakfast at his favored Table 2, owner Paul Ma and his wife Lucy placed a vase of yellow roses, a photo of Wooden and a copy of the Los Angeles Times with news of the former UCLA coach’s passing in the booth, now a shrine to their most famous regular.
“He liked the No. 2 special: bacon, scrambled eggs, English muffin,” Ma said. “At the beginning, Coach always liked hot tea. So many memories… I always put the honey out for Coach, and I would squeeze the honey for him.
“He was a great man.”
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