King Cocktail Shake Again With Eddie, London 1950s Book Cover 1901 By the late 1920s

By the late 1920s

when the property was being renovated

A writer for the magazine Modern Mechanix marveled at the scene in the kitchens: "Through an open door we saw busy chefs cooking on the kitchen's thirty-eight sectional gas ranges

and Today's Specials of a Bob Hope Cocktail (tomato Juice-Yoghurt with Dash of Lea and Perrins)

The Piccadilly Hotel was built in London in 1908 and was one of the capital city's most luxurious places to stay

King Cocktail Shake Again With Eddie, London 1950s Book Cover 1901 By the late 1920s'Eddie's Club' was the night club owned by Eddie Clark and situated at 25 Albermarle Street in London's Mayfair. Eddie went to sea aged fifteen with intention of becoming an ship's officer. Instead, after three years, he found that he had become a ship's bar tender. In the years that followed Eddie traveled round the world and mixed drinks for royalty and film stars before coming ashore in 1934 and taking up as the head bar tender at the Berkeley