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    Nicholas Goldberg: They've been making the world's best pastrami sandwiches for 75 years. Can they keep it up?

    LOS ANGELES — The long, slow decline of the Jewish delicatessen has been bemoaned and lamented for many years. In the early 1930s, there were more than 1,500 kosher delis and many more non-kosher ones in the five boroughs of New York alone, according to city records. In recent years, the estimate fell to 150 in all of North America. That's why it is a cause for celebration that Langer's ...
    by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times Jul 04, 2022 3 minutes
    Pastrami and Swiss cheese with cole slaw and Russian style dressing is #19 on Langer's menu, an old-fashioned deli serving up hot pastrami sandwiches and other traditional comfort food since 1947..

    LOS ANGELES — The long, slow decline of the Jewish delicatessen has been bemoaned and lamented for many years.

    In the early 1930s, there were more than 1,500 kosher delis and many more non-kosher ones in the five boroughs of New York alone, according to city records.

    In recent years, the estimate fell to 150 in all of North America.

    That's why it is a cause for celebration that Langer's delicatessen, the venerable pastrami emporium on 7th and Alvarado near MacArthur Park, last month. The restaurant, which opened with space for 12 customers in June 1947,

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