Happy 75th Birthday Langer's Deli, L.A.

Home of the best hot pastrami sandwich, really!

In 1947, the Westlake area of Los Angeles was a thriving Jewish neighborhood and home to a new “Delly” that found a way to make hot pastrami that melts in your mouth over crisp, double-baked bread. (For 25 cents!)

In the years that followed, the pastrami from Langer’s became world acclaimed, even as the neighborhood, on the edge of downtown, shifted into…