From our archives: we discover a photo of Langer’s Deli’s location way back in 1927. Check out our neighborhood back in the Roaring Twenties right here.
From the Archive: 1927
Yelp.com: Langer’s Fan Photos
The users of Yelp.com have been adding photos of their visits to Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant – and wow, what a great selection of imagery! We recommend you take a few minutes and browse through the collection at your leisure – it’s very impressive (more than 150 images!), and we’re honored that so many of our customers have chosen to document their visits and save them to Yelp.
Modern Day Bullfight: 2nd Visit to Langer’s
LA-centric blog Modern Day Bullfight (and its author, Allison Orphan) paid a second visit to Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant recently, compelled by a sense of Los Angeles food enjoyment and the desire for a #19 and a French dip:
Talks of French Dips and the Number 19 inspired David and I to have another afternoon lunch at Langer’s. Langer’s is really that good. In researching people’s feedback on the home of the number 19, it was found that we were not alone in our worship for the food from the deli downtown. The second trip yielded a near exact order as the previous trip: me, a delicious french dip with a side of slaw and for David, the number 19. Two sodas. The only difference is we went sans fries as they ended up just sitting on the table post sandwich consumption last time.
LATimes.com: An epiphany, and an evolving philosophy of policing
Los Angeles Police Department Chief-designate Charlie Beck received a thoughtful and well-written profile in today’s Los Angeles Times, discussing his evolution as an officer across 30 years of service, and his policing philosophies that led to his recent selection by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
One section of the article focuses on Beck’s tenure as head of Rampart Division, which encompasses the area around MacArthur Park (home of Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant):
Soon after being hired as chief in 2002, William J. Bratton identified Beck, by then a captain in the department’s rough Central Division, as someone who he believed had potential.
He sent Beck to run the Rampart Division, which was still recovering from a corruption scandal, and tasked him with one of the high-profile assignments aimed at winning back some of the public’s confidence.
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Beck seized the chance. He reached out to a nascent core of local business owners and leaned on other city agencies to return the park’s lighting, sports facilities and landscaping to working order.
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“They had to own the problem,” Beck said, using a favorite catch phrase. “I told them, ‘This is our problem, we are going to fix this.’ Everyone had to be involved. And we started talking about how we were going to do it. I told them, ‘When we get done with this, we won’t make any arrests in the park.'”
Click here to read the complete story at LATimes.com
Image caption: Chief-designate Charlie Beck enjoys lunch last week at Langer’s; LA Times photo