Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles 1940s Sizes:A4 (210x297mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The Tonkin took her name

The Tonkin took her name from the French term for northern Vietnam

This is lovely vintage menu cover art from the Santos Maru

" Rizzoli International Publications

The little chimpanzee waiter below the tiger was also Vimar’s contribution to the fashion at that time for fantastical art images – later he replaced the Chimp with a monkey

using professional pigment inks

Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles 1940s Sizes:A4 (210x297mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The Tonkin took her nameThis fabulous 1940s menu dates to the glamour years of the famous Beverly Hills Hotel and bungalows when many of Hollywoods biggest stars used it as their playground. The Beverly Hills Hotel was established in 1912 by Margaret J Anderson, a wealthy widow, and her son Stanley. Designed in Mediterranean Revival style on land that was once bean fields, actors such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Gloria Swanson patronized the hotel and many then