Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles 1930s Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) " Though the Howard Johnson

" Though the Howard Johnson hotel chain flourishes – now owned by the Wyndham Hotel Group - the last Howard Jonson’s Restaurant finally closed down in January 2017 in Lake George NY

boasts this Bill of Fare from the SS California and dated 1881

Joan Miró and Ezra Pound were some of its celebrated customers

It also warns – in red letters – that intoxicating liquor is strictly prohibited on the premises and that people must only dance with their own escorts

C'était le rendez-vous

Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles 1930s Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) " Though the Howard JohnsonThis 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. On his death in 2000, The New York Times noted that he had coaxed millions of meat and potato Americans to the table of fine cuisine. The Ambassador Hotel and its nightclub Cocoanut Grove were super stylish hotspots in