Rex Restaurant, San Francisco, 1942 World's fair such as the Coral Room

such as the Coral Room

We discovered that the twelve-hour clock was in common use in this era

dated 1924

North Carolina

The best steak

Rex Restaurant, San Francisco, 1942 World's fair such as the Coral RoomThis 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