Toots Shor’s Restaurant – Old New York at it’s Best
March 6, 2009
Mr. Shor seated at the bar at his restaurant - Image:AP
Mr. Toots Shor was a restaurateur and owner of the legendary Old New York restaurant “Toots Shor’s Restaurant”. Mr. Shor kept close friends such as Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe and just about every important celebrity from the 1940’s-1950’s. Mr. Sintara even mentions Toot Shor’s Restaurant in his duet with Sammy Davis Jr., “My Shadow and Me”. Check out some of the great paraphanelia and images below.
Toot's Menu - Image: http://www.tipsontables.com
Image: http://www.tipsontables.com
Image: http://www.tipsontables.com
Toots Shor's Restaurant - By Leroy Neiman
Detail of Mr. Neiman's painting featuring Mr. Shor & Mr. Sinatra seated at the bar
Older Menu signed by Babe Ruth
Matchbook signed by Mr. Frank Sinatra - Image:www.deansandfranks.com
Ash tray
Mr. Shor is all business in the corner with Jackie Gleason, Don Larson, and Frank Scott
There’s some great footage of Toots and the restaurant in the clip below:
CBS Style
January 17, 2009
CBS Blackrock Building in New York City
The following photographs are from the LIFE Magazine photography archive. Here is a look back at some of the people and places that made CBS such a stylish and illustrious network.
Busy scene in CBS newsroom on election night - November 1952
TV entertainer, Jackie Gleason, sitting at coffee table, signing new contract with CBS while manager and executives watch - 1956
Actors John Ericson (L) and Ralph Bellamy (R) rehearsing scene for Playhouse 90 "Heritage of Anger" at CBS TV City - 1956
Composer Frank Loesser, CBS TV producer Edward R. Murrow, Samuel Goldwyn (L-R) & unident. others in Goldwyn's office during CBS crew's visit to set of filming of motion picture "Hans Christian Andersen" - 1952
CBS News correspondent Daniel Schorr working at press table (pipe in mouth) w. unident. others during Watergate hearings - June 1973
CBS President Frank Stanton sitting at his desk - 1948
Designer William Golden with his new "eye design" logo for CBS which was influence by "Shaker Design"
CBS White House correspondent Robert Pierpoint - 1965
Dr. George Gallup appearing on CBS-Television series called "America Speaks." - 1948
CBS Pres. Fred Friendly - 1967
Actor Bob Crosby working on a TV commercial at CBS TV City - 1956
Overall exterior view of new CBS Television City complex, consisting of offices and station studios - 1952
Pres. of CBS Frank Stanton - 1966
Chairman of CBS William Paley - 1966
Men working in the control room of CBS TV City - 1956
Pres. of CBS Frank Stanton - 1966
CBS newsman Walter Cronkite filing a report - 1956
Mr. Frank Sinatra during recording session at CBS - 1947
Al Hirschfeld – Great Caricatures
January 4, 2009
Al Hirschfeld with daughter Nina - 1961 (Image LIFE Archive)
Al Hirschfeld was an American cartoonist known for his amazing caricature portraits of celebrities. Hirschfeld also liked to hide the name of his daughter “Nina” in his cartoons. Below are a small selection of some of my favorites.
TV Guide cover from November 3, 1956 featuring Edward R. Murrow
Rod Serling
Marilyn Monroe
Frank Sinatra
The Marx Brothers
Audrey Hepburn
John Lennon
The Invisible Agent 