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Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles 1930sThis splendid 1930s menu cover from The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles is from the collection of Craig Claiborne, the American restaurant critic, food journalist and author who donated his papers to The Culinary Institute of America. The Ambassador Hotel and its nightclub Cocoanut Grove were super stylish hotspots in that era, frequented by Hollywood stars such as Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and many

including Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood before opening The Tropics in 1936

renting the top two floors

caters to those - mostly single men - who must budget

Still going strong today and now owned by the Cunningham family

The Roosevelt housed the first guest pet facility and child care service in The Teddy Bear Room and had the first in-house doctor

friends advised him that he would do even better if he sold alcohol

deer and gray squirrel as well as birds such as starlings and blackbirds

This breakfast menu is as plain as can be because it is dated 1906

Indian curries were served twice weekly

" The phrase became so popular that Franklin D Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover

McDonnell employed a local artist to sketch whimsical interpretations of the car-hops or waiters that served cokes

a division of the New York Central Railroad