Chasen's Restaurant Hollywood Photo Collection!

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Chasen's Restaurant Hollywood Photo Collection! Vintage 8 by 10's Signed and Unsigned Photos!! Description Opened in 1937 by owner Dave Chasen (at the suggestion of director Frank Capra), it was just a humble shack named "Chasen's Southern Pit " (because of a barbecue pit in the back); its chili quickly became popular with the show biz crowd, and Chasen's rapidly grew into Hollywood's premier restaurant. After 59 years as a prime celebrity hangout, the legendary Chasen's finally closed its doors on April 1, 1995. At one time Chasen's was the most famous celebrity restaurant in town, the Spago of its day, renowned for its long list of movie stars and other celebrity diners. Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, W.C. Fields, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Jack Benny, Howard Hughes, Marilyn Monroe, William Powell, Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock, John Kennedy, Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Alan Ladd, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were all regulars at Chasen's, along with most of the Hollywood elite. And its tales of Old Hollywood are legendary. Humphrey Bogart & Peter Lorre once got drunk together at Chasen's bar, and made off with the restaurant's immense safe, which they rolled out the door and abandoned in the middle of Beverly Boulevard. Bing Crosby took the entire Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team to Chasen's for dinner read more

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