5/16/2023 0 Comments Club tee gee![]() Just a month earlier, the newspaper had reported that eighteen-year-old Hagadorn and nineteen-year-old Moody had been assaulted by five attackers at a café in San Pedro. Tracy, in critical condition, was rushed to a hospital in Pasadena. Police followed the trail of blood from the bar to the Los Angeles River where they found Hagadorn and took him into custody. Tracy’s sister, Lucille, phoned the police from the bar’s kitchen. One of the six patrons at the bar, a 27-year-old resident of Glendale named John R. From behind the bar, Tracy fired his Luger, at the would-be robbers, hitting Hagadorn. They were Echo Park resident Charles Hagadorn and Sidney B. On 2 March 1948, two teenagers attempted to rob the bar near closing time. They remodeled the old bank, applying a flagstone façade and neon “cocktails” sign, giving it a decidedly mid-20th-century look. The “Tee” and Gee” were references to the owners’ respective family names. Tracy and Joe Grzybowski, opened Club Tee Gee. In 1946, two World War II veterans (and brothers-in-law), Neil W. Picture of Club Tee Gee which now hangs in the bar That’s why Glendale Boulevard is still so ridiculously wide (about 35 meters) and begs for a light rail line. It was then located along Pacific Electric Railway‘s Glendale-Burbank line, between stops at Monte Sano and San Fernando Road. The train connected Downtown Burbank and Downtown Glendale with Downtown Los Angeles via Atwater, Silver Lake, Edendale, Echo Park, Filipinotown, and Temple-Beaudry but in a characteristic bit of mid-20th-century shortsightedness, service ended in 1955 and the tracks were pulled up to accommodate automobiles. The Los Angeles County Assessor‘s office records show that the building underwent substantial alterations in 1935. ![]() Its original tenant was a branch of Citizens Trust and Savings Bank. ![]() After a sale and renovation, it reopened on 14 November 2018 - and so in the interest of research, I headed over for a few drinks.Ītwater had only been part of Los Angeles for thirteen years when the building in which Club Tee Gee is located was constructed, in 1923. After the owner died in 2016, there were fears that it might be shuttered. ![]() Club Tee Gee is a long-standing bar in the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Atwater Village. ![]()
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