(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (San Francisco) Bergez-Frank's Old Poodle Dog. Thanksgiving Menu 1917 (Copy)

1 page, 9x5.5". San Francisco: Bergez-Frank's Old Poodle Dog, 1917.

A special menu for Thanksgiving, 1917, seven months after the United States entered WWI. Wartime rationing did not seem to affect the Old Poodle Dog, which offered sand dabs sauteed in hazlenut butter, green turtle fine Champagne, larded tenderloin of beed Banquiere, and Hawaiian pineapple fritters au Kirsch. Naturally, the star was roast California turkey with truffle dressing and cranberry sauce.

The Poodle Dog opened in 1849 as one of San Francisco's first restaurants, and quickly became its most famous French restaurant. It's namesake, the dog Ami, died two days after the restaurant move to a new location in 1868. While the restaurant boomed for nearly 60 years, it failed to hold up during Prohibition, and shut its doors in 1922.

Mild darkening to upper 1", else very good.