Thursday, April 13, 2006

THE PALM RESTAURANT IN WEST HOLLYWOOD OPENED IN 1975---NOW THEY'RE CLOSING THEIR DOORS AND TAKING THEIR WALLS WITH THEM WHEN THEY RELOCATE

A table of L.A's elite listen attentively at the Palm Restaurant in West Hollywood to their server's suggestions while surrounded by caricatures drawn onto the walls for the past thirty years.

The mythology of the place can be traced to the East Side of Manhattan, where two Italian immigrants opened the original Palm restaurant in 1926. The story goes that without the money to decorate their fledgling steakhouse, partners Pio Bozzi and John Ganzi traded repasts of chops and pasta for drawings on the wall by local artists and cartoonists. The restaurant became a fixture in New York, up there with Sardi's and the 21 Club.

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