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Article: 107-YEAR-OLD VAN NUYS MAN LIVED COLORFUL LIFE TO FULLEST.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- January 4, 1996
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Byline: Dennis McCarthy
The last time I ran into Mike Zele he was sitting at a table in a corner of the L.A. Breakfast Club putting his best moves on a couple of good-looking, 95-year-old widows.
That was just like Mike, hitting on younger women at a 90-plus birthday party. He called it robbing the cradle.
He didn't necessarily like doing it, Mike said, but when you're 106, you don't have much choice. There aren't many women your own age still around to ask out dancing.
"A pint of whiskey and a good woman, that's the secret," Mike was saying, as he held court with babies in their 90s interested in finding out how one goes about beating ...