Six Decades of Meatballs and Marinara Sauce [Restaurant review]
Mickey’s Mickey Mance and dad Paul. Photo (CivicCouch.com) In 1953 Dwight Eisenhower was President, Elvis Presley graduated from high school, and a fellow named Michelangelo Mance started a deli in Hermosa Beach. His clientele included surfers who showed up with whatever pocket change they could scrape together. To keep them happy he started selling marinara sauce sandwiches for five cents each. Sixty-four years later Mickey’s Deli is still serving beachgoers, though the marinara sauce sandwich now costs a buck and a half. The convenience store with a sandwich counter has an old school charm, and you feel part of history when dining at the worn wooden table. Beachgoers have been knocking back sandwiches, salads, and simple pastas there since cars had fins, radios had tubes, and rock and roll was a novelty that might catch on. The ordering system here is simple: scope out the pizzas and salads in the deli case until you see something you like, and if nothing beckons then pick out a sandwich or pasta from the list over the deli counter. Now that you know what you want, wait patiently in line for the busiest guy in the South Bay to take your order. (Pro tip: have somebody in your…
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