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Golden Pheasant, San Francisco 1950sA beautifully detailed illustrative map of San Francisco is the front cover of this menu from The Golden Pheasant restaurant. Established in 1896, The Golden Pheasant was a popular landmark in downtown San Francisco for more than half a century. Its most famous proprietor was J John Eppinger, a gold prospector and grain shipper who came to San Francisco in 1906, the year of the Great Fire. He bought a share in the property and then expanded it into a

In the following decades this little food stand in San Francisco

Statler Hotels was one of America’s earliest chain of hotels

two-storey hotel soon earned the nickname “jewel of the desert”

La Conga opened on Broadway and 51st in 1929 and by 1937 it was a wildly popular dance craze in New York

bathrooms in most of the lavishly furnished rooms

asparagus and Escoffier’s famous dessert creation Peach Melba

the way Americans used to cook abalone seemed a little like marinating a nice porterhouse in paint

and clearly everyone was having a very good time

including a Coffee Cooler Cocktail that was made by mixing espresso and ginger ale

It matches a similar menu cover for the Hotel Statler in Boston (also featured on our website) which opened in 1927

There are ‘receipts’ – the term used at the time for recipes – for proper cocktails since drinking was now about something more than just getting drunk on cheap booze

there were more than a dozen Burlington Zephyrs

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