STORK CLUB ashtray or snack dish, Vintage!

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STORK CLUB This ashtray, or snack dish, which was used throughout the club, can be seen in numerous pictures of the Stork Club (one is of Irving Berlin, and the other photo shows Sid Grauman and Jack Okie. This item may have been the one in the picture!). You've read the description of these previously, 4 3/4" diameter base about 1 1/4" tall and is black ceramic with raised "Stork Club" lettering at three locations around the base. The once grand Stork Club and Sherman Billingsley, its arrogant, swaggering proprietor, are part of New York's rich history. It's gone now, but most night places, after all, have short lives; they come and they go, and they go much faster in New York. In its heydey, the Stork Club was not an ordinary urban watering hole. Under Billingsley's command, the Stork Club became famour all over America. It was a key New York social institution, its owner one of the most powerful arbiters of the era' overlapping contestes for status. Billingsley's place at 3 East 53rd was the headquarters of what was called cafe' society; the social merging of the children of the old rich with movie sars, gossip columnists, prewar Eurotrash, politicians, judges some favored cops, a few good writers and a sprinkling of former bootleggers. These were people who did not stay home at night; they went out to see and be seen. read more

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