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Rex Restaurant, San Francisco 1942This wine list, with its beautifully simple graphic of sparkling wine being poured into a glass, was from The Rex restaurant in San Francisco. Prohibition had decimated the California wine industry. In 1919, there were 2500 wineries and by the 1930s only about a hundred wineries were still in existence. Later, WW2 would halt any serious growth. But restaurateur Rino Del Curto, gathered the best that was available for this 1942 wine list, serving wines

Coffee Dan’s in LA

and hotel conglomerate founded in 1884

Leslie Kincaid

We don’t have a definitive date for this menu but think it was from the 1940s

a hot dog and a tamale

the first Governor of New York

The Wilson’s chain and its ‘candy with a college education’ appears to have closed in the early 1950s and ‘Sticky ’died in San Francisco in 1967 at the age of 90

This wonderful poster hung in the Cliff House restaurant

the noir crime writer John Gilmore recalls meeting some famous leading men of the era there

" From TWA's Collector Series of "Great Cities of the World" menu covers which were presented periodically on various flight segments

This cheerful breakfast menu cover shows a coffee pot that looks like its waving hello and the accompanying coffee cup and egg holder offering smiles to hungry flyers at the Dobbs House chain of airport restaurants

he turned to gambling after Prohibition and moved to California where he was tried

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