Downey Doesn't Know What It Lost in Harold Tseklenis
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Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020 Vol. 18 No. 40 NEWS SPORTS PAGING DR. FRISCHER ENTERTAINMENT Downey resident Senior volleyball Living with Beethoven’s leads pledge champs bipolar disorder 250th birthday SEE PAGE 2 SEE PAGE 4 SEE PAGE 7 SEE PAGE 8 Downey Rives Downey doesn’t know what restaurant grades Mansion Marshall’s it lost in Harold Tseklenis 12106 Lakewood Blvd. Date Inspected: 1/6/20 Grade: A FridayWeekend67˚ for sale - Harold Tseklenis was an Carinos at a outspoken advocate for art Glance and culture in Downey, even 12036 Lakewood Blvd. if his efforts were not always Date Inspected: 1/6/20 SaturdayFriday 6863˚⁰ again appreciated. Grade: A Downey’s most historic Ono Hawaiian BBQ By Lawrence Christon home hits the market for 12028 Lakewood Blvd. Sunday 66˚ ⁰ Contributor Date Inspected: 1/6/20 70 $2.9 million, four months Saturday Grade: A after the property was DOWNEY - It’s impossible approved for a coffee shop. to write about Harold Tseklenis, Mothers’ Nutritional Center who died on December 29, THINGS TO DO without writing about the city 11849 Lakewood Blvd. By Alex Dominguez of Downey as well. They were as Date Inspected: 1/6/20 Staff Writer bound together and cinched as Grade: A the loops in a Windsor knot. DOWNEY - The sad saga The Marketplace Grill Cafe surrounding Downey’s most Downey, once an orange 7877 Florence Ave. historic property has followed grove and then a long-time Date Inspected: 1/3/20 it into 2020, with the Rives pioneer outpost for adventurous Mansion having once again been flyboys, was full of vitality when Grade: A listed for sale. Tseklenis, a recent MIT grad, arrived in 1959 with his young wife Luis’ Butcher Shop East L.A. Art Walk The mansion was listed Anna to find it at the resurgent 9071 Imperial Hwy. Sunday - Corner of 1st and Indiana in early December by Hudson forefront of aeronautical science Date Inspected: 12/30/19 Partners Investment Brokerage streets, 12-6 pm and technology, as it had been Grade: A for what was described as an during WWII. A family-friendly, alcohol-free event “aggressive” $2.9 million. featuring independent artists, There are generations now Luis’ Butcher Shop Deli muralists, crafters, boutique vendors, This comes after a rocky year that have no memory of the 9071 Imperial Hwy. vegan food, and more. for the property in 2019, in which Cold War and the Soviet Union, Date Inspected: 12/30/19 plans to refurbish and convert of Premier Nikita Khrushchev Grade: A the site into office space were banging his shoe on his desk at given the thumbs up, including a United Nations assembly and Dave’s Arco the approval of a controversial yelling, “We will bury you!” and 1,200 square foot retail café 9093 Imperial Hwy. a binary planet in which East Date Inspected: 12/30/19 building that was to be developed and West glowered at each other in front of the mansion. across a metaphoric Iron Curtain, PHOTOS COURTESY ROTARY CLUB OF DOWNEY Grade: A their cautious geopolitical chess Despite significant pushback Veracruz from residents, owners Arturo moves underscored by the very Greece (near Olympia, actually) spacious lots. (Tseklenis’ own 9085 Imperial Hwy. Space Expo Concha and Erika De La Teja real fear of nuclear annihilation. and learned English in junior house in North Downey was built Date Inspected: 12/30/19 All weekend- Long Beach Convention were able to persuade both After the Soviet launch of high not far from Boston. from a Richard Neutra design.) Center Grade: A Downey’s Planning Commission the spacecraft Sputnik in 1957, Douglas Aircraft, one of With the good lives of Where science and space intersect and City Council to approve the however, the U.S. went into numerous regional aviation an educated class came the with sci-fi and comics. Featuring café but with over 100 separate scramble mode, not just to Los Sombreros outfits that included Boeing and amenities: quality restaurants, panel discussions, demonstratations, conditions. dominate the space race, but 8019 E Florence Ave. workshops, and more. $25+ North American Rockwell, had social clubs and community to develop missiles and aircraft Date Inspected: 12/26/19 Property records show the built the blue collar community organizations, better schools, lethal enough to pose as military Grade: A mansion was purchased in 2017 of Lakewood. the pleasures and rewards of the deterrents. for $1.25 million. arts. Its professional class of Mart 36 That was the backdrop According to Jay Martinez of lawyers, scientists, engineers All this is what gave Downey 9913 paramount Blvd. but not the complete reality Hudson Partners, the mansion and upper echelon executives, the reputation as the step-up Date Inspected: 12/26/19 of sunny Southern California, has been listed as “ready-to- built modern Downey, often city for the region. whose Mediterranean climate Grade: A issue,” which would likely mean hiring architects to design the was like the nectar of the gods that whoever purchased the houses that went up on their Continued on page 3 property would pursue plans in to Tseklenis, who was born in Los Pollos accordance with what is currently 7940 Florence Ave. 90’s Beer Festival Date Inspected: 12/26/19 permitted, including the retail Saturday - Civic Center Studios in café. Grade: A Downtown L.A., 6:30-10 pm Martinez listed medical Put on your best flannel and grunge 3 Downey campuses named Downey Donuts shirt and enjoy unlimited samples of and executive type offices as 8011 Florence Ave. among the viable options for the beers, ciders, and specialty cocktails. Date Inspected: 12/26/19 Live music with hits from the decade. property. Grade: A All food and drinks included for $42. Still, residents should not distinguished schools anticipate anything in the Bob’s Big Boy immediate future. Price, Ward and Williams honored under the 2020 they need to be successful after 7447 Firestone Blvd. California Distinguished Schools graduation,” Thurmond said in a According to Martinez, the elementary schools Date Inspected: 12/18/19 Award Program. news release. mansion has garnered sporadic were name California Grade: A interest since being listed, and Distinguished Schools. Sponsored by the California “Thanks go to all the staff he estimates that it could be Department of Education at these schools - teachers, Ta Carbon Mexican Taqueria anywhere from four to six months DOWNEY - Three Downey and presented by California administrators, classified 11219 Old River School Rd. before any sale is finalized. Unified elementary schools Casualty, the program recognizes employees - and parents, who Date Inspected: 12/18/19 have earned the designation as outstanding education programs are working together to provide Grade: A Alfred Robles California Distinguished Schools. as well as practices, and high-quality educational Friday - Laugh Factory in Long Beach, schools are awarded for closing experiences for all of their At the end of December, Cinemark 9:45 p.m. Downey rental the achievement gap and students.” State Superintendent of Public 8840 Apollo Way achieving exceptional student Comedian Alfred Robles performs live Instruction Tony Thurmond Date Inspected: 12/17/19 along with Brett Riley, Esau McGraw, prices rise performance. This is the second time that announced that 323 elementary Price and Ward elementary Grade: A Eleanor Kerrigan and Ron G. $17+ schools from across California, “These outstanding schools schools have earned this which include Downey Unified’s don’t just educate students; they designation. Starbucks slightly Price, Ward and Williams also provide the young people 7954 Imperial Hwy. DOWNEY - Downey rents elementary schools, are being of California with the tools Continued on page 4 have increased 0.1% over the past Date Inspected: 12/17/19 month, and are up marginally by Grade: A 0.6% in comparison to the same time last year, according to a La Villa Bakery study of rental prices released Dia de los Muertos festival set 11843 Lakewood Blvd. Tuesday by ApartmentList.com. Date Inspected: 12/17/19 Currently, median rents in Grade: A Little Mermaid Sing-Along Downey stand at $1,573 for a Saturday - La Mirada Theatre for the to return this fall Performing Arts, 1 pm one-bedroom apartment and Pina Pizza House $2,022 for a two-bedroom. 11102 Paramount Blvd. A special presentation of the animated DOWNEY - After a one-year hiatus, Date Inspected: 12/17/19 classic with the lyrics displayed for Downey’s year-over-year Downey’s Dia de los Muertos Art Festival audience participation. $15 rent growth lags the state will return Nov. 1, organizers announced. Grade: A average of 1.1%, as well as the The festival, now in its seventh year, national average of 1.4%. Starbucks was not held last fall due to construction 9506 Imperial Hwy. Throughout the past year, work at Downey’s civic center. Date Inspected: 12/17/19 rent increases have been This year’s event will follow the same Grade: A occurring not just in the city of format and presentation as past festivals, Downey, but across the entire organizers said, with three stages of Dominos metro. Of the largest 10 cities continuous entertainment, and film and that Apartment List has data for 7840 Imperial Hwy. dance inside the Downey Civic Theatre. in the Los Angeles metro, nine of Date Inspected: 12/17/19 No Pants Metro Ride them have seen prices rise. An additional two outdoor stages will Grade: A Sunday - LA Metro system, 1 pm Eric Pierce, editor feature music and variety acts. An annual tradition in which transit Festival organizers said they anticipate riders hop on an LA subway without up to 30,000 guests at this year’s event.