AKA: Los Angeles Turners Club, Los Angeles, CA; Young, Rodger, Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - restaurants

Designers: Krempel and Erkes, Architects (firm); Walter E. Erkes (architect); John Paul Krempel (architect)

Dates: constructed 1925-1926

West Washington Boulevard and Toberman Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015

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The Turnverein Germania Club on Washington Boulevard was set amidst many mortuaries by the 1930s; the club lost the property in 1940; the building was renamed the "Los Angeles Turners Club" during the height of anti-German feeling in 1943; in 1945, Kalman Loeb, Sr., purchased the building and renamed it after Rodger Young, a 25 year-old Los Angeles resident and World War II hero, who died in the Solomon Islands in 1943; Loeb bought the Krempel building and a miniature golf course that existed next door for $150,000; the golf course was later removed for a parking lot; the Loeb family sold the building for $700,000 in 1978, and its contents were auctioned off; the interior of the auditorium accommodated a bar 60 feet long with 50 stools, making it one of the longest in the city;

Storefronts facing Washington Boulevard were eliminated after WW II to create more room for Loeb's auditorium business;

It was demolished after 1978; a warehouse was erected on the property thereafter;

PCAD id: 1833