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Randyman wrote:Frank, how was the homemade menudo? I'm with you, homemade is the best.

Randyman wrote:The biggest pastrami sandwich (on rye) was at Carnegie Deli on 7th Avenue in New York. They were humungous and good too. Actually, Jeri ordered the pastrami and I ordered the Corned beef on rye. I ate mine and half of hers. The pickles the were out of this world.

http://www.carnegiedeli.com/home.php

Randy

Rick Farris wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

The best pastrami sandwich in SoCal will be found at the "The Hat",
corner of Valley and Garfield, Alhambra, Ca.

I was in The Hat not long ago. It is great, but the best, I don't know.
Another long time Pastrami land mark that is possibly better is in Culver City, "Johnny's Pastrami" on Sepulveda.
It's been there for decades, from back when the "Little Rascals" were filmed on the streets of Culver City.
The S.G. Valley has "The Hat", West L.A. "Johnnie's". I've eaten at both many times including The Hat in Pasadena.
If you match one against the other, I'd have to say the result would be a "draw".
I'll get a photo when I return to Culver to work on Spider Man after the New Year.
Johnnie's is a simple place, kinda like the places in ELA where Frank & Randy know serve the best Mexican dishes.

kikibalt wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

The best pastrami sandwich in SoCal will be found at the "The Hat",
corner of Valley and Garfield, Alhambra, Ca.

I was in The Hat not long ago. It is great, but the best, I don't know.
Another long time Pastrami land mark that is possibly better is in Culver City, "Johnny's Pastrami" on Sepulveda.
It's been there for decades, from back when the "Little Rascals" were filmed on the streets of Culver City.
The S.G. Valley has "The Hat", West L.A. "Johnnie's". I've eaten at both many times including The Hat in Pasadena.
If you match one against the other, I'd have to say the result would be a "draw".
I'll get a photo when I return to Culver to work on Spider Man after the New Year.
Johnnie's is a simple place, kinda like the places in ELA where Frank & Randy know serve the best Mexican dishes.

Rick, there was a now defunct "Johnnie's" on the eastside at the corner of Eastern and Whittier Blvd where my buddies and I use to hang circa 1951, use to get a burger, fries and a coke for 75 cents, their pastrami's were also great.

THEHAMMER321 wrote:First of all, again I want to wish all my friends on cawcb a very Merry Christmas ,now getting to pastrami, is the hat or Arts a jewish type deli ?, I love those places even though I am a gentile, we have a very good one here at the Mirage, a little over priced but the portions are BIG.

kikibalt wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

The best pastrami sandwich in SoCal will be found at the "The Hat",
corner of Valley and Garfield, Alhambra, Ca.

I was in The Hat not long ago. It is great, but the best, I don't know.
Another long time Pastrami land mark that is possibly better is in Culver City, "Johnny's Pastrami" on Sepulveda.
It's been there for decades, from back when the "Little Rascals" were filmed on the streets of Culver City.
The S.G. Valley has "The Hat", West L.A. "Johnnie's". I've eaten at both many times including The Hat in Pasadena.
If you match one against the other, I'd have to say the result would be a "draw".
I'll get a photo when I return to Culver to work on Spider Man after the New Year.
Johnnie's is a simple place, kinda like the places in ELA where Frank & Randy know serve the best Mexican dishes.

Rick, there was a now defunct "Johnnie's" on the eastside at the corner of Eastern and Whittier Blvd where my buddies and I use to hang circa 1951, use to get a burger, fries and a coke for 75 cents, their pastrami's were also great.

Rick Farris wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:

I was in The Hat not long ago. It is great, but the best, I don't know.
Another long time Pastrami land mark that is possibly better is in Culver City, "Johnny's Pastrami" on Sepulveda.
It's been there for decades, from back when the "Little Rascals" were filmed on the streets of Culver City.
The S.G. Valley has "The Hat", West L.A. "Johnnie's". I've eaten at both many times including The Hat in Pasadena.
If you match one against the other, I'd have to say the result would be a "draw".
I'll get a photo when I return to Culver to work on Spider Man after the New Year.
Johnnie's is a simple place, kinda like the places in ELA where Frank & Randy know serve the best Mexican dishes.

Rick, there was a now defunct "Johnnie's" on the eastside at the corner of Eastern and Whittier Blvd where my buddies and I use to hang circa 1951, use to get a burger, fries and a coke for 75 cents, their pastrami's were also great.

Was it known as "Johnnie's Pastrami"?

kikibalt wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:

kikibalt wrote: Rick, there was a now defunct "Johnnie's" on the eastside at the corner of Eastern and Whittier Blvd where my buddies and I use to hang circa 1951, use to get a burger, fries and a coke for 75 cents, their pastrami's were also great.

Was it known as "Johnnie's Pastrami"?

That I don't remember Rick....

Rick Farris wrote:This is the Johnnie's Pastrami I know . . .

http://www.johnniespastrami.com/

I just learned it opened in 1952, the year I was born. A few years after the "Little Rascals" raised in Hell in Culver.

THEHAMMER321 wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:This is the Johnnie's Pastrami I know . . .

http://www.johnniespastrami.com/

I just learned it opened in 1952, the year I was born. A few years after the "Little Rascals" raised in Hell in Culver.

Looks like a 50s diner, love those places they always seem to have good hamburgers and shakes, Rick I know you are from Burbank,for some reason after my kids and I left one of the amusement parks we drove to a Tony Romas in Burbank, we went there on two separate visits 2002,2006, do you still have relatives there ?.

kikibalt wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

Smoking and drinking




Sitting by the fire...12-23-2010

James, the Tiger, Connie and Linda, all Baltazar's

Frank, I like the flag in the background, the UCLA-USC "house divided".
It brings to mind Charlie & Chata. You look every bit the "kept man" in the pics.

Do I look cool or what?.....

THEHAMMER321 wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:
Frank, I like the flag in the background, the UCLA-USC "house divided".
It brings to mind Charlie & Chata. You look every bit the "kept man" in the pics.

Do I look cool or what?.....

Frank you are ''The Main Man'' with that cigar, Edward G Robinson would be proud.

Rick Farris wrote:

THEHAMMER321 wrote:

kikibalt wrote: Do I look cool or what?.....

Frank you are ''The Main Man'' with that cigar, Edward G Robinson would be proud.

Frank doesn't look his age. He has great hair, a good cut. A strong presence, warmth.
A Hall of Famer and Kept Man.
You may have something, Paul. Frank looks kinda like the Godfather sitting there.

Expug wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:

THEHAMMER321 wrote: Frank you are ''The Main Man'' with that cigar, Edward G Robinson would be proud.

Frank doesn't look his age. He has great hair, a good cut. A strong presence, warmth.
A Hall of Famer and Kept Man.
You may have something, Paul. Frank looks kinda like the Godfather sitting there.

Frank reminds me a little of Carlo Gambino sittin there.
Calm, easy going loaded with wisdom but not to be trifled with. Not at all.

Rick Farris wrote:Speaking of Dons, Don Fraser turns 84 next month.