Hi Hat Cocktail Lounge, Ambassador Hotel, Washington D.C. 1930s

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Hi Hat Cocktail Lounge, Ambassador Hotel, Washington D.C. 1930sThis is an amazing black and white menu cover from the bar of the 500 room Ambassador Hotel in downtown Washington D. C. which closed decades ago. We're not quite sure why a ballerina* is dancing in a champagne glass covered by a top hat but the menu is post Prohibition, from the late 1930s, and clearly everyone was having a very good time. The haughty and cheerful expression on the waiter's face is also terrific. The Hi Hat bar was open from 8am to

The main speaker at this official White House dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel was President Richard Nixon

Realist style

" he brashly called himself

A large road sign

the hotel guest who took this menu as a souvenir in 1924 was probably a wealthy person on a Grand Tour of Europe

closed in 1963

'But the Wivel isn't the place to go when you're looking for sprightly tunes

According to many accounts

It was printed in 1892 for an annual dinner of the Holland Society of New York which took place at the Manhattan Athletic club

It has been used as a backdrop in films such as Ocean’s 11 (1960 )

There's interesting stuff on the menu too

Legendary Film director Howard Hawks (Scarface (1932)