Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Copa Room a lawyer called Frank X

a lawyer called Frank X McNamara was embarrassed when the bill arrived and he realised he was short of cash

was noted as the "orchidaceous oracle of cafe society"

showing an owl sitting in a tree

Why choose a pig

Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Copa Room a lawyer called Frank XThe 1940s and 1950s saw the Art Deco styled New Yorker at the peak of its popularity and it was widely regarded as one of New York's most fashionable hotels. Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey played there and the New York Observer noted that in the building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians, mobsters, the shady and the luminousthe entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster during the glory seasonswould stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp