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Miss Neecerie said:Actually....depending on how old the person that said this was.....he could have been -entirely- correct in his recollections of many hats.
Boyle Heights/East Los Angeles was, up until just after WWII, a completely different demographic then it is now.
It was the Jewish area of its time (as well as being the Japanese area, the Russian Area...etc), and what is now named Cesar Chavez Blvd. was once Brooklyn Avenue. Canter's deli moved -to- Fairfax from Boyle Heights, as well as one of the oldest Synagogues on the west coast of America being started in that neighborhood.
So depending on how long ago the person was remembering....hats would have been a large part of the scenery.
D...whose family is from there and so has a -thing- for the history of that much maligned side of town
True, Miss Neecerie, as well as some Serbs and Italians. I got the impression from the original post, though, that the man who made the comment was speaking of East L.A. today.