"The Pig" remained open until 1979
The book was dedicated to Chicago-born Mrs H
between Montgomery and Sansome streets: "The old frame building
The ship did a westbound round-the-world service to South Asia
first appeared in a comic strip in 1929
Chase Club, Hotel Chase, St Louis, 1946 Word's Fair "The Pig" remained open untilThe Chase Club, in St Louis's Hotel Chase, opened in 1933 and was the premier entertainment venue at the hotel. Its greatest days were after the end of WW2 when, according to Hack Ulrich, its former maitre d', "The Chase Club had all the top talent. We had Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Perry Como We would serve 1400 to 1500 people." The Chase Club's national reputation lasted until the early 1960s when television shows began to pay stars way more than