Ninety-two year old former restauranteur Al Scramuzza is in a local area hospital fighting COVID-19.
Scramuzza and his companion Lorraine Collette were admitted over 10-days ago.
Collette has since been released from the hospital, but Scramuzza is still in Intensive Care.
Granddaughter Ashley Warren posted on Instagram: "I hate that this is our reality and that our history is falling away before our eyes," she wrote. "I ask you to hold this man in your mind's eye and send him good energy."
Scramuzza’s unique, humorous, zany, and fun-filled commercials were all over local television in the 1970s and 80s.
His jingle is remembered by just about anyone who’s seen his commercials: “Seafood City is very pretty, down on Broad and St. Bernard / Stay with Al Scramuzza and you’ll never be a loser.”
The entrepreneur made crawfish a big seller.
He called himself the “King of Crawfish” or “Emperor of Crawfish.”
“Crawfish in New Orleans, there was no such thing as commercialized crawfish until I brought it up front,” he told WWL-TV in 2005. “If you wanted to eat crawfish, you had to go out to the swamps and catch them. 99 percent of the people in New Orleans didn’t even know crawfish.”
Though Seafood City closed in 1993, Scramuzza’s attraction where ever he went continued as he maked personal appearances, markets his own seafood boil and judged crawfish cook-offs.
Get well soon!