Whaley Park Concert in the
Park this Saturday August 26th
LB Fourth District Councilman
Daryl Supernaw will be hosting a free concert-in-the-park this Saturday in Whaley Park South.
The
concert will feature the popular pop rock band Pop Vinyl. The San Diego based band is a Long Beach favorite having performed summer
concerts all over town.
San Diego's Pop Vinyl will perform Saturday at Whaley Park South...see video below
Councilman Supernaw
Joining Councilman Supernaw in co-sponsored the concert is the Port of Long
Beach,Partners of the Parks and Long BeachParks
and Recreation Department, the concert is from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm this
Saturday behind the WhaleyParkCommunity Center.
The Los Altos Village logo
Numerous community groups and organizations will host booths like the Long BeachAirport and Los Altos YMCA. The Los Altos Village Neighbors
will have neighborhood t-shirts for $10 and Los AltosVillage
flags for $30. Both items feature the original 1950's Los AltosVillage
logo.
Be
sure to bring a blanket or chairs to enjoy the summer sounds in Los AltosVillage's favorite original neighborhood
park- Whaley Park South.
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 AltosVillage 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 AltosVillage 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 HatchValley
located along the Rio Grande.
The New Mexico chile varieties were developed
by the New MexicoStateUniversity 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 HatchValley'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 AltosVillage 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.
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 TolucaLake 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 LosAltosVillageIHOP
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.
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 AltosMarketCenter was built by Lloyd Whaley, the
northwest corner of Abbeyfield and Bellflower
has been a gas service station.
In
Councilman Daryl Supernaw's Weekly Newsletter this week, our 4th District Councilman
highlights the television and print stories several Los AltosVillage
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.
Councilman
Supernaw also points out a big feature in the Long Beach Business Journal on Los AltosVillage 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 LBBJLos AltosVillage
businesses article, click on
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.
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.
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
The Los Altos Library was built
on land donated by Long Beach
developer Lloyd S Whaley. The Los AltosVillage neighborhoods were originally
serviced by a library bookmobile. The Los Altos
Library would bethe 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."
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 CapitolRecordsBuilding.
Whaley Park Concert in the
Park this Saturday August 26th
