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Apr 8, 2023 · That Was Café Society. The quintessential Café Society couple: Porfirio Rubirosa and Doris Duke against the deep blue zebra stripes of Mid-Century Manhattan’s El Morocco. By Megan McKinney.
Mar 8, 2021 · It was embodied within the phrase ‘café society‘, coined by the one of the scene’s wittier celebrities Claire Booth Luce, playwright of The Women and a darling toast of Broadway. But there was also something saccharine and square — and segregated — about those Midtown haunts.
Aug 30, 2018 · Manhattan had the OAK ROOM, DELMONICO’S and the STORK CLUB. Celebrities flocked to the BROWN DERBY at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles. And all of Chicago vied for a seat (preferably at the coveted Booth #1) at the swanky PUMP ROOM, located in the Ambassador East Hotel.
Café society was the description of the "Beautiful People" and "Bright Young Things" who gathered in fashionable cafés and restaurants in New York, Paris and London beginning in the late 19th century.
Sir Henry “Chips” Channon, born and raised in Chicago, became the greatest British diarist of the 20th century; called the Pepys of the interwar years he rather more resembled Wodehouse’s Galahad Threepwood or Maugham’s Elliott Templeton.
Best Cafés in Downtown / The Loop Chicago, Illinois: Find Tripadvisor traveller reviews of Downtown / The Loop Chicago Cafés and search by price, location, and more.
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Jul 30, 2024 · From community-centric neighborhood cafes to sleek third-wave joints serving pour-overs and coffee tonics, Chicago's coffee scene offers enough diversity to suit the needs of every java...
