Rex Restaurant, San Francisco, 1942 World's fair America was an ocean liner

America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines and was designed by the noted American naval architect William Francis Gibbs

it's the clever way the artist brought attention to The Blue Room

dated 1924

such as the Coral Room

who one evening became so drunk on absinthe

Rex Restaurant, San Francisco, 1942 World's fair America was an ocean linerThis 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