Kickboxing and chile roasting coming to Los Altos Village

I Love Kickboxing and Hatch Chile roasting coming to Los Altos Center

The former mattress store next to the Vape Depot in the Los Altos Center South  will be a new I Love Kickboxing gym.   The new Los Altos Village location will be the fourth  L.A. area location and 14th location in Southern California for the upscale and highly rated New York based franchiser.

   

The I Love Kickboxing gym joins the 4th District's two L.A. Fitness gyms 

(the Los Altos Village and the Traffic Circle) and Zaferia's Anytime Fitness.

I Love Kickboxing franchises cost an initial $50,000 with opening costs pushing the total franchise cost to between $200,000 to $350,000.  Special class package rate prices (coupons and introduction offers) start at around $30.

The other Southern California  I Love Kickboxing  gyms are in Agoura Hills, Corona, Escondido, Fountain Valley, Lake Forest, Redondo Beach, Roseville, La Jolla, Oceanside, Pasadena, Poway, Santa Clarita, and Yorba Linda. 

Lazy Acres roasting Hatch Chilies on Saturday

It's Hatch Chile time and the Los Altos Village Lazy Acres is roasting the popular late summer New Mexico chilies this Saturday August 12th  from 8 am to 2 pm.

Officially, "Hatch chilies" from New Mexico by that state's law must be grown in the Hatch Valley located along the Rio Grande. The New Mexico chile varieties were developed by the New Mexico State University in the early 1900's.  The chile pepper is New Mexico's state vegetable.

New Mexico chilies grown in other states are sometimes mislabeled "hatch"  for advertising purposes.  Hatch Chile aficionados know that the Hatch Valley's unique climate and soil give any variety of New Mexican chile grown there a unique taste profile. In general, the New Mexico green chile (before it ripens to red) is considered similar to an onion in being lightly pungent with subtle sweetness and smoky tastes.  When ripened red, it is described as having an added earthiness.  The heat level depends on the variety of New Mexican chile.  The first New Mexican chile cultivated by Dr. Fabian Garcia in 1913 from 14 native southwest chiles was labeled New Mexico Number 9.

Lazy Acres is selling a case of  roasted to order Hatch Chiles for $35. You can pre-order for pick-up on Saturday's roasting day.  Hatch chilies maybe frozen after roasting and being "peeled".

Other area stores are selling the chilies without roasting. Ralph's at the Traffic Circle has them on sale for 99 cents a pound.

Lazy Acres is the sister store of Bristol Farms that bought the original Lazy Acres in Santa Barbara.  The Los Altos Village store was the second Lazy Acres in the chain when it was converted from a Bristol Farms.  Encinitas has the third location with a fourth location currently being built in the Hillcrest/Mission Hills neighborhood of  San Diego.  The two San Diego locations have the new moniker-Lazy Acres Natural Market.

IHOP celebrates with 59 cent pancake stacks!

Los Altos Village IHOP to celebrate 59 year anniversary with 59 cent pancake short stacks

Los Altos Village IHOP

The Los Altos Village International House of Pancakes (IHOP) will be participating in the Tuesday July 18th IHOP 59th Anniversary celebration with 59 cent buttermilk pancake short stacks (3 pancakes). 

Original IHOP in  Toluca Lake

In 1958, IHOP founders Al and Jerry Lapin  opened the first IHOP  in  the San Fernando Valley's  Toluca Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.  
Click on  IHOP

The anniversary offer is valid from 7 am to 7 pm on Tuesday July 18th with a limit of 1 short special per customer.

The Los Altos Village IHOP just completed an extensive inside remodel this year. Click on Los Altos Village IHOP

Long Beach's Bixby Knolls neighborhood also has an IHOP on Atlantic Blvd.

Since 2006, IHOP has also celebrated National Pancake Day in March with free short stacks- raising millions for ill children's charities just asking guests during the day to donate to the charities.

For more information Click on: NATIONAL PANCAKE DAY

New mini-mart being built at 76 Station

Los Altos 76 station to get mini mart

The construction at the Los Altos Village 76 Station at the corner Bellflower and Abbeyfield is to re-make the former car repair bays into a new mini-mart.

The former Shell Station- that at one time was a Union 76, began its re-branding back to 76 at the end of last year.    Ten years ago, in January of 2007, the then Los Altos Union 76 was one of the last local 76 branded service stations to replace the iconic round 76 sign moniker. 

The re-branding came after the Del Taco corporation sought permission to open a drive-thru restaurant on the location in a lease arrangement with the owner. That plan, with numerous problems, was opposed by the Los Altos Center Adjacent  Neighborhoods and denied by the Long Beach Planning Commission.

Since the Los Altos Market Center was built by Lloyd Whaley, the northwest corner of Abbeyfield and Bellflower has been a gas service station. 

LAV Business in the news and changes

Los Altos Village businesses in limelight

In Councilman Daryl Supernaw's Weekly Newsletter this week, our 4th District Councilman highlights the television and print stories several Los Altos Village businesses have received.

LAV Chronic Taco's Wee Man and Takeru Kobayash

The Los Altos Village Chronic Tacos located at the Los Altos Market Center-North, is featured in a taco eating contest between KTLA's entertainment reporter Doug Kolk and actor Dolph Lungren (aka- Captian Ivan Drago of Rocky fame) who is billed as the European Taco Eating Champ.  In the segment filmed last week at Chronic Tacos, Kolk is trained by Japanese world eating champion Takeru Kobayash. Councilman Supernaw provides the link to the KTLA video in his newsletter.

To see the clip-click on the link below...and if you watch closely- you'll see Councilman Supernaw in the crowd cheering on the American Taco Eating challenger. 

For KTLA's  Doug Kolk Chronic Taco contest segment click on:
Wee Man and Chronic Tacos Eating Contest

Councilman Supernaw also points out a big feature in the Long Beach Business Journal on Los Altos Village businesses. The LBBJ article features: Ecco's Pizza; Copy USA; Tattered; Sushi Kinoya; E.J. Malloy's; and Umberto International Clothier.  

To check out Councilman Supernaw's newsletter with the pictures and links to the LBBJ Los Altos Village businesses article, click on

SUPERNAW NEWSLETTER.

 Business Changes at Los Altos Market Center

The Mountain View Goodyear at the Los Altos Market Center-South received new signage that now prominently  displays its service owners brand over the tire brand.

One block south of the Mountain View Tire store is the former Los Altos Village Bellflower Shell- that at one time was a Union 76 gas station. The Shell station is now returning to the Union 76 branding.  That's right, just months after a Shell remodel- the station dropped Shell, went generic and is now being remodeled again to the Union 76 brand.  

Since the Los Altos Market Center was built by Lloyd Whaley, the northwest corner of Abbeyfield and Bellflower has been a gas service station. 

Ten years ago, in January of 2007, the then Los Altos Union 76 was one of the last local 76 branded service stations to replace the iconic round 76 sign moniker. 

LAV Union 76 "ball" from LBReport.com

For more information click on: UNION 76 Ball .

Finally, the empty Bellflower Blvd. storefront in the Los Altos Market Center South that was the former Bank of America Home Loan offices will soon become a Realty One Group office. 

For more information on click on 

REALTY ONE GROUP.

Los Altos Library 60th Anniversary

Los Altos Library 60th Anniversary

This Tuesday February 21st, the Los Altos Library will celebrate its 60th Anniversary.

Councilman Daryl Supernaw announced the all-day celebration in his February 17th Weekly Newsletter.   

The anniversary day's events include:

• 2:30 pm light refreshments and Family Storytime with Miss Carla
• 3:45 pm Showing of The Lloyd S Whaley Story documentary film
• 5:30 pm light refreshments for "The History of Los Altos" with Press-Telegram columnist and author Tim Grobaty and retired Long Beach Librarian Claudine Burnett

click on 60th Los Altos Library

The Los Altos Library was built on land donated by Long Beach

developer Lloyd S Whaley.  The Los Altos Village neighborhoods were originally serviced by a library bookmobile. The Los Altos Library would be  the first local library completely built from the ground up at a cost of $132,000.

Original architect plans from the Long Beach Historical Society

Located at 5416 Britton Street behind the Whaley planned shopping center, the Los Altos Library would quickly become second in volume only to the city's Main Library as the Los Altos branch served not only the general public, but also provided Douglas Aircraft personnel with technical books and served students from the nearby Long Beach State College-now CSULB.

The Long Beach Historical Society information about the Los Altos Library states:

"Los Altos was second only to the Main library in circulation loaning 262,982 items the first year.  Staff also answered 29,911 reference question, filled 4793 reserves, hosted 133 adult meetings, 121 school visits and 44 story hours that first year."

For more information click on LBHS: Los Altos Library

Barbara Britton in 1953

Britton Street is the street where the Los Altos Library sits and the "main street" of the  neighborhood behind the library. The street was named by Lloyd Whaley for  movie star and Long Beach native, Barbara Britton.  Born in Long Beach in 1919, Britton attended Poly and LBCC.  She was "discovered"  by a Paramount Studio talent scout after her picture appeared in newspapers of her riding the City of Long Beach float for the 1941 Rose Parade. Appearing in movies (especially westerns)  and television (she played the original Laura Petrie in the pilot for the Dick Van Dyke Show- a role eventually given to Mary Tyler Moore). Barbara Britton received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. The Britton star is located at 1719 Vine Street in front of Tiffany's on Vine just down the block from the iconic Capitol Records Building.

For more information click on:

Barbara Britton

Britton Star

Part 1 of the The Lloyd S Whaley Story

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