{"product_id":"wil-wrights-los-angeles-1940s","title":"Wil Wrights, Los Angeles 1940s","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCelebrities from the Marx Brothers to Marlon Brando and Shirley Temple were among the fans of Wil Wright’s ice-cream parlors. In the early days of her career Marilyn Monroe would regularly drop by for a hot fudge sundae after acting class, and it featured in multiple films and an episode of the comedy TV series I Love Lucy. The album cover of Brubeck a la Mode by jazz musician Dave Brubeck was shot in a Wil Wright’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe ice-cream emporium was also beloved by tens of thousands of Southern California kids, some of whom still mourn its demise today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEstablished in the 1940s by Wil ( short for Wilbur) Wright, who was originally from Cincinnati, there were locations in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Westwood Village, Sunset Strip and Pasadena as well as an outlet at a Neiman Marcus department store in Dallas, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThree restaurants - the Piccadilly, the Ready Room and the Hamburger Hamlet in Los Angeles – were also allowed to serve its 22 per cent butterfat ice-cream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe ice-cream flavors were tantalizing – Dutch chocolate, peppermint stick, English toffee, pineapple pecan, pistachio and black coffee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAnother was the strangely named Nesselrode Bula – which was chock full of candied fruits and chestnuts along with rum and brandy. This fruit-cake confection was said to be a favorite of film star Clark Gable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEvery portion of ice-cream came with a tiny, chewy almond-flavored macaroon in a rice paper bag that had the image of an angel and the phrase ‘it’s heavenly.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe chain flourished in the 40s, 50s and 60s and many times chauffeurs would drive up to the Sunset Boulevard store to purchase quarts of ice-cream for the movie stars of the day like Doris Day and Gary Cooper or their studio bosses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn the 70s, Wil Wright’s faced competition from other ice-cream emporiums such as Farrell’s Old-Time Ice Cream Parlors and an article in the LA Times pointing out that i’s ice-cream was richer and fatter than other brands probably didn’t help either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe chain was sold to restaurateur Dennis Lowell in the 80s but didn’t regain its former glory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis striking menu cover with Wil Wright’s signature and candy cane stripes will bring back memories for some. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIncluded  with this print is a list of almost 400 celebrities who patronized Wil Wright's.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCourtesy Private Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGallery quality Giclée print on natural white, matte, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson archival inks. 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