To the editor: Your articles about Langer’s Deli and the sad state of the area around MacArthur Park are of curiosity to me, as our household was topic to the identical points greater than 30 years in the past.
Our household owned Edward’s Steak Home at 733 S. Alvarado St. My dad opened the restaurant in June 1946, and Al Langer opened his deli the next yr. Identical to Norm Langer, who presently runs Langer’s, I rode the boats in MacArthur Park lake.
Sadly, we had been compelled to shut in 1990 as the results of the crime within the neighborhood. Although we had parking for about 100 automobiles and three attendants, our prospects didn’t really feel secure.
On the time, we labored diligently with then-Mayor Tom Bradley and Councilwoman Gloria Molina to deal with this severe scenario. We had been among the many founding members of the MacArthur Park Group Council. Sadly, this space was not a precedence for metropolis leaders, a difficulty Langer’s faces at this time.
Now, 34 years later, it’s so irritating to see Langer’s and different companies struggling the identical issues. My dad handed away, however my mother is 100 years previous, alert and unhappy.
Ken Rausch, Lengthy Seashore
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To the editor: I’m the third era of my household to eat at Langer’s. My dad knew Al Langer.
Initially, the deli was one storefront broad; it expanded within the Fifties and ’60s. Many No. 2 sandwiches (corned beef with tomato and Russian dressing) had been consumed whereas I labored at a printing manufacturing unit on Hoover Avenue and Washington Boulevard.
Langer’s was a lunchtime spot for native politicos, workers of the B’nai Brith Messenger and different native newspapers, LAPD administration and rank and file, and on and on.
Will the town simply do nothing and let one more thread in L.A.’s historic cloth be ripped away, as with the Richfield Tower and historic neighborhoods reduce in half by the 101 and 10 freeways?
Toby Horn, Los Angeles
