Name: Navajo Room, Thunderbird Hotel Las Vegas 1950s
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Navajo Room, Thunderbird Hotel Las Vegas 1950s

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Navajo Room, Thunderbird Hotel Las Vegas 1950sThis visual feast of a menu cover was for the Pow Wow Buffet in the Navajo Room of the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas in the 1950s. There are fabulous fonts, a couple of showgirls, a chef, buffet items, bars of music and great colors, all done by artist Jos W. Wendel. The Thunderbird opened with crooner Nat King Cole headlining on September 2, 1948. The resort was the brainchild of then Lt. Governor of Nevada Cliff Jones and developer contractor

the restaurant became an irreputable Speakeasy called The Chantilly Club

was born in Albi in the south of France in 1910 and died in 1974

which became iconic examples of California’s offbeat roadside architecture

this menu cover is one of the most unusual ones in our collection

it brought immigrants to their new lives in the US

We think this may have been Hal March

A lone sea lion – called Josephine – was living on the premises when Polos arrived and barked greetings to guests

It was so strong

it looks gorgeous - and there's a lot to read

This 1940s menu from the hotel’s Canary Room restaurant shows a cowboy-booted chef lassoeing canaries

they had everything they wanted

The complex was refurbished in 1935 by renowned architect Mary E J Colter who restored the main wooden lodge where the coffee shop was