Delicatessen, Warsaw Bakery

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Looking southeast across the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue (later Ce´sar E. Cha´vez Avenue) and St. Louis Street. The corner commercial structure, built by Zimmer Construction Co., contains a delicatessen, Warsaw Bakery (left) and a dentist's office (upstairs). Max Zimmer was a Los Angeles contractor and philanthropist born in 1894 in Austria. Zimmer emigrated to the United States around 1914 where he met his wife, Pauline, a Russian immigrant who had arrived in the U.S. two years prior. The couple married around 1917 and had three daughters one daughter was born in New York and two more were born in Ohio where the family had moved prior to relocating to Los Angeles in the mid to late 1920s. Zimmer launched his career in construction when he talked a Lynwood merchant into letting him remodel his storefront. The project was successful and Zimmer went on to develop an assortment of commercial buildings throughout Los Angeles including many of Los Angeles' first supermarkets.