Memorabilia Collection
This collection of memorabilia includes a menu from the Stage Door Steakhouse, El Rancho’s 24-hour coffee shop. The bulk of the menu is taken up by the breakfasts, which included selections like the "Club Breakfast Number One: fruit, toast, marmalade, griddle cakes, eggs, and coffee or milk" for 65 cents or the "Number Four: fruit, cereal, ham, bacon, eggs, toast, marmalade, and coffee or milk" for $1.75.
Burgers like "The Leading Man" and "The Mellodrammer" came with cole slaw and pickle chips for 90 cents and sandwiches (ham, turkey, egg salad, liverwurst, etc.) ran around 70 cents.
The most expensive thing on the menu was a New York Sirloin Sandwich, listed oddly enough under the heading of "Snacks." It included French fries and old-fashioned picnic slaw for $3.25.
Desserts such as home style pie, chocolate fudge sundaes, and "Grandma’s Egg Cup Custard" went for around 50 cents.
The full wine list on the back ranges from white table wines at around $3 per bottle up to imported champagnes such as a 1941 vintage Lanson for $15, a sum that must have been eye-popping to most considering that rooms in the hotel went for around $5 a night at the time this menu was published.
Also included in the collection are two napkins and two coasters from the Stage Door Steak House and a sewing kit featuring two white buttons, six colors of thread, a needle, and two safety pins.
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