Jewish Community Center to School ( and everything in between )

                     Jewish Community Center to School

                                     ( And everything in between)               By, Sanovia M.

If You search 14701 Friar Street, you'll probably end up with a lot of the same things for the first three pages. VIP Charter and Presbytarian Church. But I managed to go more than 15 pages into the internet and found some pretty interesting things.

    I found a Yiddish blog who dedicated their article for that day to the fall of the Jewish community center that was here before us. Apparently the  community center opened in 1959 and closed in June of 2009. That's over 50 years (56 if you want to be exact)! Now the fact that it closed in 2009 wouldn't have been a surprise if the picture of the school in 2007 wasn't taken. If you zoom in on the church there's a banner in Korean. My friend Joan asked her mother what it means and in English it would translate to Korean church. Now, how could it be a Korean church in 2007 if the Jewish community center didn't close until 2009? I looked for clues of what time it was a korean church but i got no luck. The  blog also had a picture in the header of what the school looked like in 
1959. Unfortunately, they edited and did special effects so you couldn't really see it. It they said that the picture was from the LA Times so I searched and searched for it but I still found nothing.
    The school was also a drug and alcohol rehab facility. On Saturdays, Mondays, and Wednesdays they had either a mens stag, women's stag, or quality of life AA meetings. All the websites I found on the rehab center, had little to no information about the building or when it became a rehab center. I searched on all the websites for a date of when the website was last updated to see exactly when it was a rehabilitation center but there was not a lot of information unfortunately.
     The building was at one time an international institute. Basically it was a place you would go to if you were an illegal immigrant or alien that wanted to get there U.S citizenship. They were open 

Monday through Friday. I also found out that at the same time 
they were a immigration service center, they were also a preschool/daycare. 
      The Yiddish blog also made a comment about how the founder  of the blog went to nursery school there. My guess is that it was not only a Jewish center, it was a Jewish school too. They also had a summer and a day camp for older kids.
       They were a Presbytarian church, a Catholic Church, and they might have been a Korean church.
      Even though this building was made in 1912 I decided to start at when it was a JCC because that was the main buisness. I think it is fascinating how many buisnesses this place has been through. This place has so much history that it's hard to put it all on one 
piece of paper and as we go through our school year, more history 
will be added on.
If you would like to visit the Yiddish Blog, click it.