Fable Restaurant, Hotel Drake - Wiltshire, San Francisco 1948 Sizes:A4 (210x297mm) Archival Print (Unframed) During the years between the

During the years between the wars

by that time oysters were bought in from other parts of the US and the menu was filled with other seafood choices

the Manhattan cocktail was invented in the Manhattan Club in New York City in 1874 at the request of the beautiful and spirited socialite Jenny Jerome

ragtime - a style of early jazz music written largely for the piano and characterized by jaunty rhythms – was enormously popular

Fable Restaurant, Hotel Drake - Wiltshire, San Francisco 1948 Sizes:A4 (210x297mm) Archival Print (Unframed) During the years between theDecorative wall paintings are a long tradition in hotels and restaurants and perhaps none are as whimsical and charming as the ones created by the noted artist Jo Mora for The Fable restaurant at the Drake Wiltshire Hotel in San Francisco. It depicts a parade of animals bringing out food to be served to customers, led by a pig wearing a chef's hat. Mora, who born in Uruguay in 1876 and who moved to the United States when he was a child, had an