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Oakland Beach reached its heyday in the 1930s when it boasted a bathing beach, boat docks and restaurants, as well as a Ferris wheel, and rail service to Providence and other nearby summer colonies. Popular local attractions included an arcade, carousel (merry go round) movie theater, bowling alley and dodgem cars, it also housed a skating rink ...
Old menu cover, original Trader Vic's, Oakland. Trader Vic's is a restaurant and tiki bar chain headquartered in Emeryville, California, United States.Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (December 10, 1902 in San Francisco – October 11, 1984 in Hillsborough, California) founded a chain of Polynesian-themed restaurants that bore his nickname, "Trader Vic".
Victor J. Bergeron claimed to have invented the Mai Tai in 1944 at his restaurant, Trader Vic's, in Oakland, California, US. [2] Trader Vic's forerunner, Donn Beach, claimed to have instead first created it in 1933, although a longtime colleague said that Beach was actually just alleging that the Mai Tai was based on his Q.B. Cooler cocktail.
The restaurant was grossing $90,000 monthly during its first year of operations. [5] By the end of 1978, Victoria Station had 97 restaurants, all company owned. [6] The chain was designed to attract members of the baby boom generation. The theme of the restaurant was loosely based on London's Victoria Station.
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Doggie Diner was a small fast food restaurant chain serving hot dogs and hamburgers in San Francisco and Oakland, California that operated from 1948 to 1986, owned by Al Ross. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] History
The Zimmern List is a 2017 Daytime Emmy-winning travel and cuisine television show hosted by Andrew Zimmern on the Travel Channel in the US. The first season debuted on Thursday, September 14, 2017. [1]
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