Verhovayak Lapja, 1941. július-december (24. évfolyam, 27-52. szám)
1941-11-13 / 46. szám
November 13, 1941 Verhovayali Lapja Sunkist Southern California By ALBERT STEINMETZ Los Angeles, California Member of Branch 104, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania This my twelfth article will conclude a year of “Sunkist” gossiping in the Journal, and all indications point to the fact that yours truly will ask for a “leave of absence” from his readers, at least for a while. However, before I bid you “au revoir,” I feel that I should review my past eleven articles so as to refresh your memory about the sunkist land. I hhve taken you, far and wide, in and around Los Angeles, and vicinity. In December, we visited Hollywood’s “Santa Claus Lane,” also Los Angeles’ beautifully decorated downtown streets and Exposition Park’s naturally decorated Xmas trees. We paid a visit to Altadena’s world famous “Xmas Tree Lane,” stopped at Pasadena, at Mt. Wilson Observatory, Santa Anita Race Track, called your attention to Pasadena’s yearly events, the New Year’s Day “Tournament of Roses Parade,’-’ the Rose Bowl football game, gave you many statistics of Los Angeles County, local weather data, etc. In January, aboard the streamlined train “City of Los Angeles,” direct from Chicago, we arrived at the beautiful new Union Terminal in Los Angeles, and boy! what a depot. Leaving the station, we visited Olvera Street, the heart of the old Mexican quarter, visited the many old buildings in and around the plaza, saw the beautiful new City Hall which is the largest structure in Southern California, and again many statistics seasoned the article. In February, in one of my serious moods, the sunshine of California left this article and I brought out some hard facts about the crimes in Los Angeles, with official statistics; also the fair warning to youngsters with their Hollywood-bent ideas, reminding them that the only thing Hollywood needs is tourists with “dough” to spend—rest of you stay at home! In March, we visited the National Orange Show at- San Bernardino and learned much about the two types of California oranges, the Valencias and the Navels. We also visited the world’s largest vineyard east of Ontario, the largest hog ranch in the U. S. A., at Fontana, and gathered some valuable information and statistics about San Bernardino County in general. In April, we heard about the Hollywood Bowl Easter Sunrise Service, and were there with our beautiful Hungarian movie star, Ilona Massey (Hajmássy Ilona). Yours truly was there in person, and many of you readers listened in by the radio, after I had given you the details of the program. We also paid visits to other Easter Sunrise Services around our southland, namely, Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale and Mt. Rubidoux near Riverside. In May and June, we visited local and near by points of interest, Exposition Park, Los Angeles County Museum and its Art Gallery, the State Building, Griffith Park, Westlake, Echo and Lincoln parks, Hollywood Bowl, Monkey Island, the crocodile, ostrich, chinchilla and lion farms, had a “wiener bake” on the beach of the blue Pacific Ocean, visited Chinatown, radio city of Hollywood, and Wilshire Boulevard’s “Miracle Mile,” the so called “Fifth Avenue of the West.” In July, our trip took us to the Douglas Aircraft plant in Santa Monica, where the brandnew B-19 Bomber was made and finished, also to Venice, Ocean Park, Santa Monica and Malibu beaches. In August, we explored the one and only Santa Catalina Island. In September, the city of Pomona was our point of interest. Here we paid a visit to the Los Angeles County Fair, a yearly event, also the Arabian Horse Farm. In October, I described and discussed the huge Coliseum, with plenty of details and statistics. And now, in November, my twelfth and last article of this series, I review incompletely the preceding eleven articles on SUNKIST SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Our good friend, Albert Jozik, while out here as my guest, was made to promise us Californians that he would write in the Journal his views about our sunkist land. This he did, as you all know, and made a swell job of it, too. In fact, we Californians never expected four articles on his two weeks trip, but Albert This is the return of the favorite column of the old Verhovay Social Club of years gone by. I have decided to dust it off and put it to some use, as in the bygone days of Jay-Gee. I should like to dedicate this column to our pal and friend, Ernest Lada, now a P. F. C. stationed in Co. C, 128th Inf., C. T., A. P. O. 304, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Ernie., a very likable chap, who abounds with personality, was drafted in May of this year, and since then has taken the Army life in stride and is working very diligently, expecting his corporal stripes in the near future. He recently came home on leave, and it looks as though the Army life has made him a serious and more handsome lad (all you boys don’t volunteer at once!). His hobbies are collecting all the letters the boys and girls write him, and he’s a whiz on the dance floor, shaking a mean hoof. He has participated in baseball and bowling, and in tennis can be compared with Don Budge. This is just the beginning of all his feats, so I’d better stop as it is or I’ll have to put it into a few columns to relate everything. Getting off to a flying start with the news of all our members of Detroit Branch 36, I have noticed the diminishing of the male population, due to their beknew best! And we were more than pleased with his report, so well that the local Hungarian newspaper, “Californiai Magyarság” (“California Hungarians”), on three occasions publicly echoed the “thank you!” of all us Californians for Mr. Jozik’s articles—on his trip Westward, his stay in Los Angeles, and his trip homeward. You people who were regular followers of my columns and Albert Jozik’s articles must know Southern California by heart now, and I’m wondering whether it is right that we turn your attention so much to California. After all, they say it’s best at home! However, dear readers, please remember that there are thousands of good Hungarian brothers, far away in Southern California, who miss you, and think of you back East often. Au revoir ... and GOD BLESS YOU! (Editorial Note: Our thanks to you many times, Albert Steinmetz, for your splendid California series. Your concluding paragraphs choke us with emotion, their thoughts beautiful and inspiring. Don't make your “leave of absence” long but come back soon!) ing called away as draftees in Uncle Sam’s Army. So far among the males to be drafted are Pvt. Ernest Lada, now stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on maneuvers; Pvt. Zoltán Baki, a chef at Fort Brady, Michigan; Pvt. Charles Papp, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; and our latest addition, Kenneth Toth, temporarily stationed at Fort Custer, Michigan. There are still plenty of eligible bachelors that are expecting their induction papers, and will the girls in Delray pine when they go! The boys have plenty of time to “wolf” since Ernie’s been gone—but not forgotten. The boys on the Verhovay bowling team are sporting their new shirts and slacks and, since they received them gratis, are bowling so well that they are in first place in the Verhovay League. The boys bowl under the banner of all the Verhovay branches in Detroit, and roll their games on Sundays at 2:00 P. M., at the West End Recreation, 7861 West Jefferson Avenue. They would appreciate all loyal enthusiasts to come down to cheer them on, as they want to win the championship of the league and then go to Pittsburgh for the great National Verhovay Bowling Congress thai will be held in March, 1942. The girl sports in the Detroit Verhovay is sadly lacking. Since bowling has come into a national pastime, let’s have all the girls interested in bowling get together and form a Verhovay girls’ team. Our neighboring Branch 429, Dearborn, already hcs a team. Why can’t a big city like Detroit get at least one good team together? We can’t let Dearborn 429 get the best of us in sports. So all the girls interested, please let me know by getting in touch with me when our boys bowl on Sundays at West End Recreation Alleys in Delray, and I will personally give the girls expert instructions, along with my assistant, Mike Szopo, in the finesse of bowling. The Detroit boys, and probably a women’s team, will accept challenges in bowling. All interested Verhovay teams, from near-by or out of state, please contact me, stating your team’s average, also your women’s team, if you have one, and the games will be on a home and home basis. I will now present a few facts concerning the activities of our Verhovay Wolf Club, this club being practically defunct, what with Uncle Sam taking all the “wolves” to camp sooner or later, etc. We have only about six members left, but we will stick to the last draftee! The members of this club are bachelors, which means we have stag affairs only, like a good old-fashioned szalonna or kolbász roast over an open fire out of doors, in any and all kinds of weather, and really enjoy it. We have been doing this for the last four years. The members all have at times participated in the various Verhovay sports programs, and at the present time are competing against one another by bowling with various teams in the Verhovay Bowling League. Let’s hear a few challenges from the out of state Verhovay bowling teams, and 1 promise you will meet, a swell group of fellows, all sociable, and girls! they are still eligible for matrimony. This being the end, as all good things must come to an end, I wish to bid adieu to all of you. Fraternally, FRANK A. 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