Rene's, Fresno, California, 1970s Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Somehow the Riviera survived

Somehow the Riviera survived

This menu features a Chinese and an American menu and "Long rinks" like the Ward Eight

The Hollywood Brown Derby was the preferred hang out for the gossip columnists (they and the movie executives loved the innovation of tableside phones) and late nights turned into an unofficial club for Hollywood's elite

MacDonald designed the cocktail and dinner menus for the Cunard White Star Line including this early 1925 work for the R

Rene's, Fresno, California, 1970s Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Somehow the Riviera survivedThis wonderful menu cover, packed full of food illustrations, showed the ingredients that went into making the fine food served at Renes in Fresno, California. Cherries, beets, pasta, herbs, seafood, steaks and even a gingerbread man are among the colorful drawings, and we believe this lunch menu is from the 1970s. Renes was run by Rene Klopfstein, who was born in Switzerland in 1925 and immigrated to California in 1959, having learned the butcher