Tak's Coffee Shop and The Holiday Bowl: A Brief History
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- Along the wide-stretching Crenshaw Boulevard at the Crenshaw Square shopping center in Leimert Park sits a modest corner diner nestled at the rear of the building. At first glance, the restaurant's pragmatic exterior and interior demonstrate its disinterest in grandeur. But frills and trends aren't the point of Tak’s Coffee shop.
Tak’s Coffee Shop is instead built upon a culture of community.
But the diner experience at Tak’s Coffee in South LA didn’t begin overnight. Nor did it start in 1996 with the grand opening of Tak’s Coffee Shop. Instead, its the carryover of a community cultivated in the Holiday Bowl, a 36-lane Bowling Alley on Crenshaw Boulevard that served as a cultural outpost for many in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles.
But how did the Holiday Bowl evolve into Tak’s Coffee Shop? Let’s find out.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:45 Holiday Bowl History
5:29 Tak’s Coffee Shop
Learn more about the Holiday Bowl - • The Holiday Bowl Histo...
Watch Breakfast at Tak’s by Tadashi Nakumura - • Breakfast at Tak's
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Have you been to Tak's Coffee Shop?
Love Tak's Coffee Shop and I also really enjoy the videos you put out. Thank you!!! Keep up the good work.
I appreciate this, Tyler! Thanks for watching
I always enjoy your videos and appreciate learning about the history of my beloved city. Thank you
Thank you so much for your support, Redrose1721! It's comments like yours that keep me going in this work!
Makes me want to buy a ticket to LA just to eat there.
Another amazing video as always! I love the 3-degrees-of-separation between Helen Fong and Tak's! She designed some of my favorite places to eat. Tak's seems like a dope neighborhood spot that I definitely need to go check out this weekend!
Thanks, @californiography! And definitely, Helen Fong has some great Google style buildings. Pann's in Ladera is definitely one of my favorite. But yeah, Tak's is a hidden gem with great food. The loco moco with bacon fried rice is bomb. But you really can't go wrong with anything on its menu!
I am so happy to see you back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
😂😂😂 I promise when I’m quiet like this, I’m working on something! The next story I plan to publish in late February or early March has been in the works since October of last year. Hopefully you’ll like it!
@@SouthLARecap I can't wait. I used to see you at Copy City. :)
I bowled in leagues here as a youth. Oh the food! Oh the friends! Used to have a Holiday Bowl bowling shirt - orange with white trim. This was in the early 70's.
Appreciate the time and investment of your videos. Thank you for your research and energy towards these videos...much gratitude brother
Thank you for this comment. I really appreciate it. I’m just glad there are people like you who find this work useful
Im gonna have to go visit this place and check it out
This would make a great segment on your channel! Looking forward to it
Taks.. the best breakfast … .i remember the bowling alley and there was a Chinese restaurant next door.
日本の招き猫がありますね！
行ってみたい！❤😂
compton ave and 66st in the corner looks like a old movie theater,please do a story ,i live there many years and want to know more,,the front entrance,floor look very expensive tile was cut to make room for the sidewalk
Is Ho Sai Jai still on 37th and western