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Fonda Santa Anita, Mexico City 1950sFondas are small, inexpensive, family run restaurants or taverns, particularly in Mexico and Latin America, serving traditional, home style meals (comida corrida). This delightful menu art was for the Fonda Santa Anita in Mexico City that was in operation for almost 70 years. The artwork is drawn with a craft like sensibility and features indigenous women carrying food and drinks. From research, we know Fonda Santa Anita operated in the 1950s and

and was involved in such seminal events as the Albert Hall poetry reading of 1965 and the obscenity trial of Oz magazine of 1971

eight Polynesian-themed Luau restaurants

formerly of Chasen’s in Hollywood

Probably the most iconic cocktail in the world

it was ‘built with lots of lava rock and an almost cartoonish South-Seas flair’and set the tone for Waikiki

Affectionately called ‘Fuji-san

The Gaumont film company

The community of Mystic

Boyce’s was famous for its homemade chili

This was an era when ladies were often expected to dine separately from the gentlemen

models such as Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton were international fashion models and style icons and the Beatles

Among the notable personalities who stayed there