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Sambo's Pancake's, California 1950sSambos Pancake House was established in 1957 in Santa Barbara, California, by businessmen Sam Battistone snr and Newell Bohnett. The name for the diner Sam Bo came from Battistones first name and the first two letters of Bohnetts surname. As part of the dcor, the owners (who were white) used paintings of the story of Little Black Sambo, a childrens book written by Helen Bannermen, a Scottish woman living in India, and published in America in 1900.

This image of an ostrich playing the French Horn is dated 1939 and was on the menu cover of the Italian ocean liner SS Conte Verde

but it could not survive a change of ownership

It was a triumphant and emotional evening with the three brave Americans each making their own comments before a cheering audience

Neon signs with intense green and crimson fires

on a prime site in the financial district of the city

Patterson in his fine book

Delightful and colorful

to name a few – performed in the piano room

And if you do go

The inn featured the first swimming pool in the Coachella Valley and offered guests diversion such as archery

On the fourth of June 1902

bought the modest café called the Las Flores Inn for what he called ‘a sack of peanuts’ in 1944