Rex Restaurant, San Francisco, 1942 Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The King of The Sea

The King of The Sea is a riot of vintage colors and amazing graphics

this is the 1920s and his opinions about the “nourishment of the human frame ”were new and controversial at the time

(“People with cars are so lazy

drink and listen to nightly jazz sessions

The building was razed in 1853 to make room first for Franconi's Roman Hippodrome and then for the Fifth Avenue Hotel

Rex Restaurant, San Francisco, 1942 Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The King of The SeaThis 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