Rex Restaurant, San Francisco, 1942 Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) there were more than 200

there were more than 200 franchised or company-owned Ho Jos

who is listed in the Boston Directories as renting rooms and running an eating house at 13 Montgomery Place

King sized cocktails costs 50 cents while long drinks such as rum fizzes and rum juleps cost between 60 to 90 cents

The Hotel Pennsylvania was opened in 1919 by the Pennsylvania Railroad company

leaving these odd space-age architectural anomalies to stand out in the landscape like crashed UFOs

Rex Restaurant, San Francisco, 1942 Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) there were more than 200This 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