Odeon Café, San Francisco 1908 Prohibition Cocktail lounges like Tale O’

Cocktail lounges like Tale O’ The Tiger embraced the social freedoms of the Swinging Sixties and attracted a cool crowd who came to eat

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Odeon Café, San Francisco 1908 Prohibition Cocktail lounges like Tale O’The Odeon Caf was San Franciscos leading vaudeville restaurant and this lovely Art Nouveau menu cover is dated 1908. It was a huge and elegant place with ornate ceilings, marble pillars and rows upon rows of tables, all with a view of the stage where performers entertained all day and evening. Terrapin, lobster and frogs legs were on the menu, as well as ten types of potatoes, and the cafs owners Adolf Becker and Friedrich Rauschkolb would patrol the