Manuscripts

Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant papers

Description: Collection includes a bilingual menu in English and Chinese, illustrated with photos of the restaurant and staff. There is also a postcard featuring a photo of the restaurant interior, and a handwritten party invitation card to dinner at the restaurant, from "Mess Tom Mon Kip, Tom Ming, Tom Ying, and Der-Foo Sam."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1897
Call number: mssCTR
Creator: Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Zephyr Used and Rare Books, February 2022.
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Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant papers

Manuscripts

Collection includes a bilingual menu in English and Chinese, illustrated with photos of the restaurant and staff. There is also a postcard featuring a photo of the restaurant interior, and a handwritten party invitation card to dinner at the restaurant, from "Mess Tom Mon Kip, Tom Ming, Tom Ying, and Der-Foo Sam."

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Manuscripts

Menu from the Rice Bowl restaurant, 949 Sun Mun Way, New Chinatown. The back of the menu promotes the restaurant and the bar, the The Temple of Heaven Cocktail Lounge.

mssHong Family papers

Golden Pagoda, restaurant menu

Manuscripts

Menu from the Golden Pagoda restaurant, 464 Gin Ling Way, New Chinatown. A promotional flyer has been inserted into the menu.

mssHong Family papers

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Ching How Menu

Visual Materials

A menu for James Wong Howe's and Sanora Babb's Ching How restaurant in Los Angeles, California. The cover is printed with green and black border illustrations of stylistic Chinese motifs, including birds, dragons, and women in dress. Center of cover reads "Ching How Menu" and the illustration is signed by an unknown artist, "Sally" towards the lower right. Interior pages include variations of food entrees, appetizers, soups, and other dishes with their prices. The menu is bilingual, with the original dish names listed in Chinese and English descriptions below, for example, "Git Lic Gai...Fried breaded boneless chicken with sweet and sour sauce." Some items are crossed out in black pen, noting name changes or when the restaurant was out of a specific item. The menu promotes "Chinese food in the Chinese manner," while having "the chef of a thousand dishes," and an introduction to "the best in Chinese food." The approximate date of the item is based on text in the lower center of the menu, which mentions pricing being high in April 1943.

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Original Coppa's Restaurant : wine list

Manuscripts

Wine list from Original Coppa's Restaurant bound in gilt-stamped red leather boards. Handwritten not on front pastedown: "Buttsky. Earthquake dinner at Coppa's, Farewell to Mrs. P. Newberry Monday May 7, 1906 by candlelight." Signed by 12 people on the first page of the wine list, including: Herman Whitaker (1867-1919), Elsie Whitaker Martinez (1890-1984), Xavier Martinez (1869-1943), Agnes Foster Buchanan, Porter Garnett (1871-1951), James Hopper (1876-1956) and Henry Anderson Lafler.

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Home of Breakfast in Hollywood, Hollywood, California

Visual Materials

Image of a nighttime view of Tom Breneman's Hollywood Restaurant at 1539 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, with a neon sign for the restaurant that reads "Glorifried Ham n' Eggs From Pan to Mouth" and a banner reading "Ted Fio Rito and his Orchestra." The old Tom Breneman's restaurant is visible down the block.

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Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant papers

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