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Cierra el club de los ricos y famosos, donde Humphrey Bogart se comprometió con Lauren Bacall y Dalí iba acompañado de un ocelote

Cierra el club de los ricos y famosos, donde Humphrey Bogart se comprometió con Lauren Bacall y Dalí iba acompañado de un ocelote
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The 21 Club s Havana Gamble | Cigar Aficionado

Share Preparing for a busy day at the ‘21’ Club’s popular Bar Room, which is festooned with “toys” from its famed clientele. In 1931, Ernest Hemingway was caught in its kitchen having sex with gangster Legs Diamond s girlfriend. Holly Golightly dined there in Breakfast at Tiffany s, as did the book s author, Truman Capote. Grace Kelly had its food delivered to an incapacitated Jimmy Stewart in the movie Rear Window. Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Elizabeth Taylor ate there, as did Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, Luciano Pavarotti, Audrey Hepburn, Helen Hayes, and Dorothy Parker, nearly a dozen American presidents and all kinds of business moguls. Its walk-in humidor cigars were a major feature of the restaurant before the New York smoking ban was home to the good smokes of Yul Brynner, Jack Lemmon and John F. Kennedy (when he was a senator) as well as Henry Ford II and the Duke of Windsor, among many others.

New York native Daisy Prince on what the loss of the historic 21 Club means to her

Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images In a crushing blow to New York’s restaurant scene, the 21 Club announced that it would be shutting its doors indefinitely, yet another victim of Covid-19’s economic fall-out. The news was received as a gut-punch to all who adored the 21 Club for its reminder of New York’s racier, glamorous past. Once New York’s premier Speakeasy, the 21 Club ‘officially’ opened on 1 January 1930, a few years before Prohibition ended in 1933. Cousins Charlie Berns and Jack Kriendler, born to poor immigrants from Austria, had operated an earlier incarnation called Red Head in different spots since 1922 before settling on 21 East 52 Street. To cope with the frequent police raids, they stashed contraband booze behind camouflaged doors, created shelves designed to collapse and send wine bottles down a hidden chute if the cops arrived, and as well as constructing a secret wine cellar in the adjacent basement (barred by a 5,000 pound door), allowing sta

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