 | | 28/05/2021 20:53
Sur le blog Atomic Redhead
Tommy’s Burgers Turns 75
Before embarking on our Koreatown tour , we stopped at Tommy’s for a bite, and it just so happened to be their 75th anniversary!
This small shack might not look like much, but it’s here where chili burgers first made their mark in Southern California. Born to Greek immigrants in Oklahoma City, Tom Koulax arrived in California in 1928. After serving as a shipyard welder during World War II he opened up a hot dog stand at Florence and Main. But when he lost his lease there he spied this shack at the corner of Beverly and Rampart, opening up Tommy’s in May of 1946, a year before In N Out would hit the scene.
By the 1960s Koulax had the whole...
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