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Charlie Hess, Bala Cynwyd 1956Solly Haase started out as a bootlegger in Philadelphia and became a restaurateur after Prohibition ended in 1933. He was proprietor of the Sansom House and the Sunken Gardens restaurant and used Hess as a business name, Haase often being mispronounced. His son Charlie opened this popular Bala Cynwd restaurant, naming it after his father. Charlie Hesss was a popular establishment in its day, a magnet for prominent Philadelphia professional athletes

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One night in 1940

became one of the most powerful rail companies of the 19th century

The food offering was Chinese or American

an orchestra that blithely

asparagus and Escoffier’s famous dessert creation Peach Melba

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This bilingual Chinese-American menu from the 1960s includes several pages of authentic Chinese cuisine hand-written in Chinese characters which have not been translated into English

savouries and desserts

also known as a prairie schooner

As a teenager

believed to have originated from Chinese immigrants in the mid-1800s or African American soldiers returning from war

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