Janis Plume, Sr.
Sales
Janis Plume, Sr.
Account Manager
Janis is well-positioned to serve Alaska Business clients as a nearly forty-nine-year resident of the 49th State. Though he spends the majority of his time using his background in journalism and public relations to help his fellow sales all-stars keep the magazine in the black, Janis enjoys a plethora of hobbies. He is an avid jazz and blues fan; enjoys photography and photo editing; playing guitar; cooking (especially smoked meat and barbecue); and is a railroad fan and model railroader. And like all good Alaskans, Janis enjoys the outdoors by fly fishing and bike riding.
In This Issue
The Marx Bros. Café
January 2020
Jack Amon and Richard “Van” Hale opened the doors of the Marx Bros. Café on October 18, 1979; however, the two had already been partners in cuisine for some time, having created the Wednesday Night Gourmet Wine Tasting Society and Volleyball Team Which Now Meets on Sunday, a weekly evening of food and wine. It was actually the end of the weekly event that spurred the name of the restaurant: hours after its final service, Amon and Hale were hauling equipment and furnishings out of their old location and to their now-iconic building on Third Street, all while managing arguments about equipment ownership, a visit from the police, and quite a bit of wine. “If you’ve ever seen the movie ‘A Night at the Opera” starring the Marx Brothers, that’s what it was like,” Hale explains.