Schaber’s Cafeteria

Your article, “Serving Up the Past” (April 1), about Schaber’s Cafeteria in North Hollywood reminded me what a meaningful bit of local history it is. Times, styles and neighborhoods change--Schaber’s Cafeteria doesn’t. It is what it is and doesn’t use phony glitz to attract customers or contemporary lean-and-mean operational technologies to enhance profits.

It should be preserved for the same reasons Angels Flight and the William Mulholland fountain are city features. They are all important in reminding us of Angeleno development and still useful today--if we take the time to appreciate them.

HARVEY BARKAN

Studio City