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	<title>Musso and Frank Grill</title>
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		<title>Late Night Musso&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in Musso~Frank history, doors now stay open until 2 am on Friday and Saturday nights.  The restaurant, which traditionally closed at 11 pm, now dims the lights and vintage music, from the collection of proprietor Jordan Jones, fills the air. The bar serves the same classic drinks, and now Hors D’Oeuvres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 1 ~ Welcome to Musso &amp; Frank</title>
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It was starting to come down hard.  The man and the woman had been driving from the desert since early morning. By the time they turned on to Hollywood Boulevard, the rain was bouncing off the windshield of their sedan. The heater was broken and the man rubbed his knuckles while the woman clutched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 2 ~ The Early Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well before their 20th anniversary, Musso and Frank advertised itself as &#8220;the oldest restaurant in Hollywood.&#8221;  90 years after they opened as Frank&#8217;s Francois Cafe in 1919, Musso and Frank is still going strong. In the intervening years, Sardi&#8217;s, the Brown Derby, Chasen&#8217;s, Mike Lyman&#8217;s, the Seven Seas,  Edna Earl&#8217;s Fog Cutter,  the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 3 ~ The Mayor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mayor&#8221; is an honorary title, bestowed on one patron by fellow patrons, who recognize that this is the ambassador who best represents them to the management and customers.
Jimmy &#8220;Doc&#8221; Pappas, also known as the &#8220;Swashbuckler,&#8221; is the current Mayor of Musso&#8217;s.  Jimmy is a regular in the dining room and at the bar and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 4 ~ Writers &amp; Philosphers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By the late 1930&#8217;s and early 1940&#8217;s, a number of serious writers from the east coast and elsewhere settled into life in Hollywood. Most of them complained as they cashed bigger checks from the studios than they did from their publishers. Hemingway refused to write screenplays but sold his books to the movies. Faulkner worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 5 ~ John Barrymore &amp; Company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stories of the early days of Musso and Frank have become the stuff of legend and myth. Most of the tales can no longer be substantiated, but they sound good, nevertheless.  Rudolph Valentino ate at Musso&#8217;s, where he could talk to the Italian waiters in their native language. There is the oft repeated, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mussoandfrankgrill.com/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Chapter 6 ~ The Staff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The professional wait staff of Musso and Frank has a long history in the restaurant business in Los Angeles.  The three famous bartenders, Ruben, Manny and Mario have well over one hundred years of combined service.
Ruben Rueda has tended bar at Musso&#8217;s since the February 4, 1967. A native of Durango, Mexico, he worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 7 ~ Chicken Pot Pie &amp; Other Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting at the counter one afternoon, Joyce told the story of her father, who was on leave from the army during World War II.  He spent a few days in Los Angeles and found his way to the Hollywood Canteen and eventually up to Hollywood Boulevard for dinner. He and a buddy stepped into [...]]]></description>
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