The Cunningham's was there in the early 70's. At Clarita and Livernois, east side was Detroit Bank and Trust.
The lack of restaurants around there, I can attest to that back then. Checker's Barbeque, north of Seven Mile, a Bates style burger joint was on the west side of Livernois at Clarita. Further down south of Margarita on the west side was a little confectonary store that had sandwiches and hot dogs for the lunch crowd. There was a Little Lamplighter restaurant north of Seven Mile, food was so-so but the help made up for it. There wasn't much else around there that I remember. We used to eat from the catering trucks a lot when I worked at Packer Pontiac.