To the editor: Your articles about Langer’s Deli and the unhappy state of the realm round 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 at present runs Langer’s, I rode the boats in MacArthur Park lake.
Sadly, we have been compelled to shut in 1990 as the results of the crime within the neighborhood. Regardless that we had parking for about 100 automobiles and three attendants, our prospects didn’t really feel protected.
On the time, we labored diligently with then-Mayor Tom Bradley and Councilwoman Gloria Molina to handle this critical scenario. We have been among the many founding members of the MacArthur Park Neighborhood Council. Sadly, this space was not a precedence for metropolis leaders, a problem 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 My dad handed away, however my mother is 100 years outdated, alert and unhappy.
Ken Rausch, Lengthy Seaside
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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 huge; it expanded within the Fifties and ’60s. Many No. 2 sandwiches (corned beef with tomato and Russian dressing) have been consumed whereas I labored at a printing manufacturing facility on Hoover Road and Washington Boulevard.
Langer’s was a lunchtime spot for native politicos, employees 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 material be ripped away, as with the Richfield Tower and historic neighborhoods minimize in half by the 101 and 10 freeways?
Toby Horn, Los Angeles
