In Memoriam
Julie Kohl
Julie Kohl, who endeared herself to generations of USC students and Coliseum fans with her two eateries near campus, Julie’s Trojan Barrel and Julie’s Restaurant, died Jan. 14, 2002. She was 98.
A native Angeleno, Kohl owned the Trojan Barrel on Figueroa Street from 1975 until it closed in 1999. But it never quite matched the popularity – or generated the lore – of her original Julie’s Restaurant a block away at 37th and Flower streets.
From 1941 to 1975, Kohl played hostess at Julie’s to everyone from Bob Hope to Ronald Reagan and countless other sports fans either heading to or coming from the Los Angeles Coliseum, which over the years was home to USC football, UCLA football and NFL football with the Rams and Raiders.
Those guests also included several generations of USC students, faculty and administrators, who were her steady and loyal customers.
Kohl was said to have known every USC coach since 1941. John McKay, football coach from 1960 to 1975, became a close friend. McKay always held court at booth No. 1, where he plotted plays and gabbed with his coaching staff and any reporter who pulled up a chair. When McKay left to coach the NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Kohl had his booth dismantled and shipped to Tampa Bay, where it was installed in his new restaurant hangout.
In 1975, Kohl decided to cut down on her workload, leased out Julie’s and opened the nearby Trojan Barrel.
A member of the USC marching band’s support group, Kohl for years donated money for band scholarships. In 1995, she donated $100,000 for the university’s new band headquarters, which is known as the Julie Kohl Band Facility. In 1985, she donated the 1.45 acres that housed Julie’s Restaurant, then valued at $750,000. Over the next 14 years, she donated nearly $500,000 to the university, including gifts to the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Until last year, Kohl never missed a USC home game, and her loyalty did not go unnoticed. Since she turned 90, she always received a birthday present from the USC athletic department: a football jersey bearing her age in giant numbers. In 1995, she was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame.
Kohl, who was married four times, had no children. She is survived by a niece, Yvonne Schultz, and a nephew, Casimir Mazet.
Julie Kohl
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A native Angeleno, Kohl owned the Trojan Barrel on Figueroa Street from 1975 until it closed in 1999. But it never quite matched the popularity – or generated the lore – of her original Julie’s Restaurant a block away at 37th and Flower streets.
From 1941 to 1975, Kohl played hostess at Julie’s to everyone from Bob Hope to Ronald Reagan and countless other sports fans either heading to or coming from the Los Angeles Coliseum, which over the years was home to USC football, UCLA football and NFL football with the Rams and Raiders.
Those guests also included several generations of USC students, faculty and administrators, who were her steady and loyal customers.
Kohl was said to have known every USC coach since 1941. John McKay, football coach from 1960 to 1975, became a close friend. McKay always held court at booth No. 1, where he plotted plays and gabbed with his coaching staff and any reporter who pulled up a chair. When McKay left to coach the NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Kohl had his booth dismantled and shipped to Tampa Bay, where it was installed in his new restaurant hangout.
In 1975, Kohl decided to cut down on her workload, leased out Julie’s and opened the nearby Trojan Barrel.
A member of the USC marching band’s support group, Kohl for years donated money for band scholarships. In 1995, she donated $100,000 for the university’s new band headquarters, which is known as the Julie Kohl Band Facility. In 1985, she donated the 1.45 acres that housed Julie’s Restaurant, then valued at $750,000. Over the next 14 years, she donated nearly $500,000 to the university, including gifts to the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Until last year, Kohl never missed a USC home game, and her loyalty did not go unnoticed. Since she turned 90, she always received a birthday present from the USC athletic department: a football jersey bearing her age in giant numbers. In 1995, she was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame.
Kohl, who was married four times, had no children. She is survived by a niece, Yvonne Schultz, and a nephew, Casimir Mazet.
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