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The Purple Cow, USA 1950sThe Purple Cow was a short nonsense poem by American writer Gelett Burgess and was first published in his magazine The Lark in 1895. It read: I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one. But I can tell you anyhow, Id rather see than be one. The poem became so popular quoted everywhere that two years later Burgess wrote a riposte in his magazine: Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow, Im Sorry, now, I wrote it. But I can tell you anyhow, Ill Kill you

1906 as an 8-story luxury hotel in downtown Los Angeles

which remains an historic landmark and luxury hotel

The Los Angeles Club closed its doors in 1986

1949 when another glamorous evening unfolded at The Starlight Roof

This is a particularly refined menu

was the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its collapse in1991

Other locals have told us they have fond memories of drinking martinis and eating butter-soft sautéed abalone or oysters on the half-shell while the restaurant 'creaked like a ship at sea

a showman at his roots

cool designs helped shape the modernist desert city

The inside is equally charming with menus such as the Non-Stop Special

opposite the Riviera Hotel

Boss Tweed had decided that the site was the finest in the city for a new hotel and for the investment of the loot he had acquired during his reign as lord of the city treasury

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