For the final blog post for 2025, I thought it would be fitting to feature a brief, but historically significant, newspaper article describing the dedication festivities for the newly constructed building that housed the former Cooperative Center, which opened 100 years ago this year, at 2708 Brooklyn Avenue in Boyle Heights. Established by local Yiddish…
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RED BOYLE HEIGHTS: The 100 Year Evolution of the Cooperative Center
As covered in the earlier blog post titled, The Cooperative Center and the Open Shop, after the Cooperative Center was established in 1925 by a group of Yiddish communists in Boyle Heights, the 3-story venue emerged as a busy center for an array of political leftists and labor activists. It was also the focus of…