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Jilly's, New York 1960sErmenegildo Jilly Rizzo was an American restaurateur, entertainer and a long time friend of Frank Sinatra. Born in 1917 in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of New York, Rizzo first worked for his father delivering ice to cafes and had a variety of other restaurant jobs before opening his eponymous saloon. Jillys, located in midtown Manhattan, became known as the citys swinging est place to be. Sinatra frequented his old pals place often and brought

John Wayne

one of the grand hotels that lined Atlantic City’s famous wooden boardwalk

Ernest Hemingway and Oscar Wilde were well-known absinthe drinkers

It was the front cover of the menu at the hotel’s elite Starlight Roof supper-club where performers such as Xavier Cugat

This saxophone playing mouse appears on the cover of a stylish 1933 menu from The Vulcania ocean liner

long before restaurants with other kinds of cuisines got on board with carry-out

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Accustomed to preparing food for royalty

the artist who created the menu cover had great imagination and created a very handsome tiger couple as diners

Harry’s was best known for its annual Ernest Hemingway parody contest

his wife took over the business for two years and then sold it to Charlie McGarvey