In 1986, in an effort to soften Atwater’s sullied reputation, the neighborhood was rebranded “Atwater Village.” Many other neighborhoods added “village” to their names around that time, an easy bit of window dressing, the superficiality of which was underscored when someone threw a Molotov cocktail into Club Tee Gee in 1993. Barlotta continued to run the bar, with new partner Bob Kick, as well as serve on both the Atwater Griffith Park Chamber of Commerce and the local Lion’s Club.īy the 1980s, Atwater was plagued with rival Mexican Mafia-affiliated gangs including The Avenues, Frogtown Rifa, Thee Rascals, and Toonerville Rifa. Grzybowski died of a heart attack in 1984. Barlotta took over ownership of the bar in 1981. The two became involved, both romantically and professionally. Around the same time, Grzybowski met a transplant from New York City named Betty Barlotta, then working as a secretary down the street.
In 1952, while awaiting trial for stabbing an inmate at San Quentin, Hagadorn beat a prison guard with a section of his toilet’s plumbing. After his arrest for the botched robbery, Hagadorn was sentenced to life in prison on one count of attempted robbery, two counts of robbery, and one count of attempted murder. In that instance, Hagadorn had been slashed in the face with a broken beer bottle. 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. The company also offers a Commercial Auto program for Taxi and Livery businesses.Club Tee Gee is a long-standing bar in the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Atwater Village.
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