The back booth at Salem’s Diner will be empty tomorrow. Perhaps it will stay empty for a while as a tribute to the man who loved it so much. From that booth, Mike Slive could survey all the Birmingham movers and shakers who came in for a cup of coffee and some of Wayne Salem’s fluffy biscuits. Back when Slive ran the SEC, he even did the occasional bit of business there. And any deal would go down easier with a few spoonfuls of the fig jam made by Wayne’s mother.
But Wayne’s mother passed a few years back.