Canter’s Deli Sandwich

One of the premier family-owned businesses in Los Angeles, the Canter brothers opened the Canter Brother’s Delicatessen in Boyle Heights. That was in 1931 and having moved locations to the Fairfax District, the kosher Deli is now in its 72nd year in that area, still run by third and fourth generation family members.

In the late 1950s, the Dodgers had arrived in Los Angeles and were playing in their temporary home – Memorial Coliseum – until Dodger President Walter O’Malley could privately build Dodger Stadium, which opened April 10, 1962. 

The traditional Jewish Deli named one of its menu items – a hot corned beef or pastrami sandwich with tomato and Canter’s dressing – in honor of O’Malley. The price of the O’Malley sandwich was 60 cents in the late 1950s and a general admission ticket for a Dodger game was 75 cents.

Through many decades, the O’Malley sandwich remained on the menu.