Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles 1940s Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) matchbooks and ashtrays

matchbooks and ashtrays

Unlike many other restaurants Cavanagh's survived the Prohibition years because it never had a bar and didn't rely on alcohol sales

pate de foie gras honest to goodness pate de foie gras

Jackie Gleason

Ginger Rogers and Claudette Colbert were all presented with Oscars at the Biltmore

Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles 1940s Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) matchbooks and ashtraysThis fabulous 1940s menu dates to the glamour years of the famous Beverly Hills Hotel and bungalows when many of Hollywoods biggest stars used it as their playground. The Beverly Hills Hotel was established in 1912 by Margaret J Anderson, a wealthy widow, and her son Stanley. Designed in Mediterranean Revival style on land that was once bean fields, actors such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Gloria Swanson patronized the hotel and many then