Holocaust survivor David Apfelbaum opened San Francisco's oldest Jewish delicatessen in the theater district in 1952, hand-chopping the liver 1,179 times—the exact number tattooed on his arm at Auschwitz. The West Coast's last horseshoe counter diner still spins out hot pastrami, matzo ball soup, and corned beef hash beneath original neon signs and wooden letter menus from opening day.
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