The Blue Room, The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, 1952 Clinton This incredibly colorful and cheerful

This incredibly colorful and cheerful menu suggests that a grand fiesta was to be had while dining at Fonda Santa Anita

The bar was adjacent to the prestigious French restaurant La Vieille Porte

changing his name to Jimmy Kelly to fit in with the Irish-controlled boxing world of turn-of-the-century New York

This nightspot in the Brill Building evoked the atmosphere of the South Pacific

The Blue Room, The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, 1952 Clinton This incredibly colorful and cheerfulWe love this 1952 menu cover of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans for its wonderful image. What's going on behind those illuminated windows, we wonder, and look at the stylish automobiles lined up on the street. The building isn't actually blue, of course, it's the clever way the artist brought attention to The Blue Room, once one of the most famous supper clubs in America. Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra were among the list of