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Originally Posted by Those Who Squirm
The Italian neighborhood was just north of Sunset and Main, and probably extended into present-day Chinatown. The famous Little Joe's restaurant hung on into the 1970s or 80s,
and even today I believe St Peter's Church still holds an Italian mass at least once a week.
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I was surprised it still says St. Peter's
Italian Catholic Church on the facade.
GSV
You can see it a little better in this view.
GSV
and next door is the Casa Italiana (a banquet hall I presume)
GSV
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Italian Hall at 622 N. Main was built in 1907
http://italianhall.org/
below: 1919 banquet held in the Italian Hall.
http://italianhall.org/
Here is the Italian Hall today, on the northeast corner of N. Main & E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave.
GSV
/ Olvera Street runs directly behind it on the left.
GSV
http://italianhall.org/
"By the late 1800s, Italians owned over one third of all the businesses that made up the Olvera Street area. By 1900. there were 3,000 Italians living in Los Angeles. At that time, the Italian Quarter or Little Italy, was made up of the Plaza, the area that would become New Chinatown, the foothills of Elysian Park and Lincoln Heights. By the 1930s there were an estimated 30,000 Italians living in Los Angeles."
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"In the Plaza area alone, there were five Italian owned wineries. One of the wineries was owned by Secondo Guasti who ran a restaurant and boarding house in the Avila Adobe, which still stands today. Another wine maker, Antonio Pelanconi, purchased from another Italian, what would become the Pelanconi House, the first and oldest brick building still standing in Los Angeles.
It is now the site of the La Golondrina Restaurant, an Olvera Street landmark.
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Those_Who_Squirm also mentions Little Joe's.
http://kim-reynolds.blogspot.com/201...estaurant.html
I know we've seen Little Joe's on NLA (and the Italian Hall for that matter).
I only get "sorry-no matches" while searching for "Little Joe's"
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