St Catherine Hotel Cocktails, Catalina Island 1941

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St Catherine Hotel Cocktails, Catalina Island 1941This is one of a series of menus created by Dorothy and Otis Shep Shepard, the masterminds behind Wrigley chewing gums branding. The couple worked on a lot of branding material for Catalina Island when owner P. K. Wrigley worked to develop it as a tourist destination. The St Catherine Hotel in Avalon dates from 1918, when the Bannings built it on the site of their former family home, destroyed by fire in 1915. The hotel had a private beach, a 1,200

bought it and converted it into the restaurant

Odd special insert from a La Guardia cocktail menu from 1940

this separation of the sexes ended because underground Speakeasies were co-ed and men and women mixed freely

When Helfrich died in 1934

Printed in USA

the date of this unusual menu

a dining room and a cocktail lounge – all open 24 hours a day

The food offerings here don’t seem particularly healthy - a chocolate éclair or chocolate digestive biscuit anyone

and top entertainers

The rather grand lunch was held at the historic Château de Francs

butterflies and insects

The Hi Hat bar was open from 8am to 2am and described itself as being a "delightful cocktail rendezvous"