(Editor's note: Jerry Robinson found three men about town to interview for this week's column.)

Meet Jim Hughes

He is the owner/operator of Burien's popular Sal's Deli.

He worked for many years for the previous owner and decided to not change the name when he bought it. Many people still call him Sal and he just waves and smiles.

Jim is a Highline native, one of 10 kids, and attended Highline High. But he admits he was so full of rebellion he was asked to leave.

Then he went to O'Dea for a year but hated the paddles the teachers used to discipline the students so he left that school, also.

It took him a while to get over his mad at society and now is one of the city's biggest boosters.

Meet Ric Leibel

Yes he has two eyeballs but he had such a huge grin on his face I could not get him to reveal them.

Rica is Bonnie Libel's son and he was getting a haircut and a beard trim at Nick's barbershop in Burien. He was celebrating his mother's retirement from S and L Realty in White Center.

Bonnie Liebel took over the company owned by her mother Luverna Thomason, who founded it way back in 1948.

The company is now owned by Ann and Jeri Finch. Jeri is the daughter of Tom Carsley, former owner of Carsley Auto Parts, another pioneer White Center business.

Ric is maintenance director for a large group of apartment houses.

Meet Earl Addis

Earl is on the left. The other man on the right is Tim Robinson, associate publisher of this newspaper and an old friend.

Earl is not really an Admiral, though he has hung around the Admiral district in West Seattle in his many years as an executive with GE.

He lives in Burien and would come over to your house and fix your electric range or disposal but he doesn't feel like it.

In fact, his wife Barbara admits she knows how to use a socket wrench. He told her if you can't figure out why something does not work just socket with a hammer.