now la isn't all cheesy burritos and
hot chicken it's a city that's
constantly changing and growing
sometimes at the expense of its
communities and cultures
but george's a 50-something-year-old
boyle heights establishment
is working hard to keep its neighborhood
happy that's good
every morning we make our patties fresh
we start with a couple hundred pounds of
meat and then we roll them out
after many changes of ownership this
former drive-through has fallen
into the right hands i really wanted to
kind of bring this back to what i
remember it being
in my younger years
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just this place that people can come
back to and remind themselves
of those places that you go to as a kid
this is
not george meet armando an east l.a
native
a couple of years ago he and his buddy
robert bought george's
a lot of friends that i went to high
school with coming in i had one guy
coming here the other day he's like yo
you're working at a burger stand i was
like yeah i'm working at burgers
robert's being humble he owns the burger
stand he also oversees the pastrami
program here
when i get into something like fully
submerged myself into it like i was into
rc airplanes for a weird second and got
like really deep into that into fish
tanks
hold up did he say he was in a fish tank
there's burger stands like this all over
la the main focal point is the pastramis
and the burgers
but the outside of the menu kind of
varies around the community
and i think our menu represents boyle
heights really well
the history of george's had a lot to do
with that car culture of la
and a lot of people from the
neighborhood have been coming here since
they were kids in high school
an establishment like george's attracts
all kinds of customers at
all hours of the day
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the clientele is really representative
of boyle heights there's just a mixture
of different cultures
you know i've seen a lot of stores come
and go man but georgie's is still
here this is crazy
cheeseburger
we like to slice it to order so it's
really fresh and then we dunk it into a
beef broth the juice that we make here
give it a little flavor heat it up los
angeles is obsessed with pastrami and
boyle heights has been the center of the
love affair ever since the turn of the
last century
when thousands of westward-bound jews
arrived in the neighborhood
bearing those fine shaved slivers of
beef
that's pastrami on pastrami action
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what's that mr hamburger you want me to
eat you
dude this is off the chain bro
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yeah man we got it all huh
did we forget our drinks damn
you