St Catherine Hotel Cocktails, Catalina Island, California, 1941 Sizes:A4 (210x297mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The setting was almost theatrical

The setting was almost theatrical

15-year-old Del Curto boarded a ship bound for San Francisco

by that time oysters were bought in from other parts of the US and the menu was filled with other seafood choices

in their white aprons

St Catherine Hotel Cocktails, Catalina Island, California, 1941 Sizes:A4 (210x297mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The setting was almost theatricalThis is one of a series of menus created by Dorothy and Otis Shep Shepard, the masterminds behind Wrigley chewing gums branding. The couple worked on a lot of branding material for Catalina Island when owner P. K. Wrigley worked to develop it as a tourist destination. The St Catherine Hotel in Avalon dates from 1918, when the Bannings built it on the site of their former family home, destroyed by fire in 1915. The hotel had a private beach, a 1,200