Sugie's Original Tropics, Beverly Hills, 1946 Hen It was sold in 1919

It was sold in 1919 to the builders of the nearby Ambassador Hotel

Prohibition had seen the decimation of the Californian wine industry

The restaurant

caricaturist

nautically-themed McGarvey’s situated in Vermilion

Sugie's Original Tropics, Beverly Hills, 1946 Hen It was sold in 1919Sugie's Original "The Tropics" restaurant and club, was opened by an Englishman named Harry "Sugie" Sugarman in Beverly Hills in 1936. It had a Polynesian theme and billed itself as "the informal cocktail lounge and dining room of the motion picture industry." Certainly, if walls could talk, this bar and restaurant would have many tales to tell. Hollywood directors brought impressionable young starlets here and big name stars of the 30s and 40s often