(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Los Angeles) Cafe Rouge. Luncheon

Menu, 2 pp., 11x8.25", with cover image of the swimming pool environs at the Hotel Statler. Los Angeles: Hotel Statler, June 30, 1954.

The Statler Hotel company was one of the United States' early chains of hotels catering to traveling businessmen and tourists. The largest hotel to be built in the United States since the Waldorf Astoria in 1931 it hosted movie stars, presidents (Eisenhower to Reagan) and kings as well as Pope John II; it was the venue for the 1952 Emmy Awards; it welcomed the Brooklyn Dodgers to their new home in Los Angeles. The Hotels Statler Company, Inc., was sold to Conrad Hilton's Hilton Hotels in 1954 for $111 million, then the world's largest real estate transaction. The one in Los Angeles, 930 Wilshire Boulevard, was demolished in 2012