Known as “the friendly hotel
Properly framed or stored
Joaquin released an album "A Night At Joaquin Garay's Copacabana" in the mid-1940s and the sleeve notes read as follows: "Joaquin came to San Francisco from native Mexico at the age of eleven months
businessman and politicians came to let their hair down
he started to hallucinate
Rector's, New York 1913 Lasserre Known as “the friendly hotelThis was the legendary "lobster palace" on Broadway in Times Square. Charles Rector had already launched a successful seafood restaurant in Chicago in 1884, when he opened a second Rector's in New York City in 1899. This was a time of high living, high flying financiers, actors, singers and gamblers, who liked to spend their large rolls of cash lavishly. The goal was to be seen, and Rector's on Broadway, in the heart of the theater district, was in