Desilu Cahuenga Studio Commissary, Hollywood 1960s

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Desilu Cahuenga Studio Commissary, Hollywood 1960sThis tongue in cheek dictionary of basic Yiddish comes from a 1960s menu from the Desilu commissary on Cahuenga Boulevard in north Hollywood, California. Desilu was the name of the television production company formed by husband and wife team Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, famous for the I Love Lucy television series which aired from 1951 to 1957. Modified one hour specials continued until 1960. The series followed the life of Lucy Ricardo (Ball), a

Noted for their Art Deco style

the small-waisted lady is probably a showgirl

the Lido was razed in 1964

the hotel was eventually bought by Conrad Hilton in 1945 and renamed The Conrad Hilton Hotel in 1951

This stylish image of an Aeroflot Tupolev jet with a contrail of colors was on the cover of a celebratory 1980 Moscow Olympics menu from the Boryspil Airport restaurant outside of Kyiv in what was then Soviet Russia

was created for a dinner to mark “the last creations” of a famous family-owned company of furriers and perfumers called Fourrures Weil

Seven blocks from where General James Ogelthorpe

Corsaw also created artwork based on Valhalla – in Norse mythology

It had a near monopoly in air travel between New York and Florida from the 1930s until the 1950s and dominated this market for decades afterward

frequented by Greta Garbo

Unwilling to risk his friend’s money

which was a decidedly exotic food in Paris at the time

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