{"id":17454,"date":"2014-09-10T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17454"},"modified":"2014-09-10T14:46:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T21:46:53","slug":"wilmington-wienerschnitzel-landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wilmington-wienerschnitzel-landmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilmington Wienerschnitzel Landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/schnitz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 16, 2014 a\u00a0dedication by the City of Los Angeles declares the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/wilmington-wienerschnitzel.html\"> first ever Der Wienerschnitzel<\/a> (still in operation) a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument. A plaque and ceremony pay homage to its\u00a0continuous operation since July 3, 1961. Largely intact from its original design, the restaurant epitomizes the drive-thru and walk-up architecture popularized in the 1960s that is strongly associated with Los Angeles car culture. The Wilmington restaurant is a 600 square foot structure, with Wienerschnitzel&#8217;s signature drive thru built smack dab in the middle of the building.<\/p>\n<p>John Galardi was 19 years old when he came from Kansas City\u00a0to Southern California. He worked for Taco Bell founder Glen Bell, at Taco Tia in Pasadena and within a few short years at\u00a0age 23 he opened the Wilmington restaurant.\u00a0Building the company from\u00a0a single hot dog stand to what is now the world&#8217;s largest hot dog chain with 350 locations and selling more than 120 million hot dogs annually, his affordable, fast food and\u00a0\u00a0secret-recipe chili has\u00a0kept fans coming back.\u00a0\u00a0Wienerschnitzel acquired Tastee Freez with shakes, cones and sweets added to the menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 16, 2014 a\u00a0dedication by the City of Los Angeles declares the first ever Der Wienerschnitzel (still in operation) a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument. A plaque and ceremony pay homage to its\u00a0continuous operation since July 3, 1961. Largely intact from its original design, the restaurant epitomizes the drive-thru and walk-up architecture popularized in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}