Sugie's Original Tropics, Beverly Hills, 1946 Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) At Frenchy’s Black Cat Cafe

At Frenchy’s Black Cat Cafe the local newspaper reported that the choice of starter on the fixed lunch menu was "cocktail or soup” which makes us laugh

and the liquors are perfect

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

Dorothy and Otis Shepard

Sugie's Original Tropics, Beverly Hills, 1946 Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) At Frenchy’s Black Cat CafeSugie'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