California Tea Rooms
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[[File:Copper-Kettle-Tea-Room Los-Angeles-Postcard-Front-1.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Copper Kettle Tea Room, 23 Mercantile Place, Los Angeles, California, postcard front, circa 1909, published by the Benham Indian Trading Co. The hand-lettered caption on the photo that was the basis for this coloured card reads "Copper Kettle Inn," but that is an error, because all advertising ephemera and references to the establishment in contemporary newspapers and magazines identify it as the Copper Kettle Tea Room. The Copper Kettle opened in 1908 under the proprietorship of two sisters, Smith college alumna Harriet Morris (1880 - 1961) and Barnard College alumna Mildred Morris, helped by their friend Beatrice Wigmore. In addition to tea and light lunches, The Copper Kettle sold Japanese and Chinese basketry and gift wares; by 1915 they were also marketing confections or candies that were sold along the Southern Pacific Railroad route. The building that housed The Copper Kettle -- and, in fact, every shop on both sides of the street, and the entirety of Mercantile Place itself -- was demolished in 1923 as part of a large urban high-rise building program.]] | [[File:Copper-Kettle-Tea-Room Los-Angeles-Postcard-Front-1.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Copper Kettle Tea Room, 23 Mercantile Place, Los Angeles, California, postcard front, circa 1909, published by the Benham Indian Trading Co. The hand-lettered caption on the photo that was the basis for this coloured card reads "Copper Kettle Inn," but that is an error, because all advertising ephemera and references to the establishment in contemporary newspapers and magazines identify it as the Copper Kettle Tea Room. The Copper Kettle opened in 1908 under the proprietorship of two sisters, Smith college alumna Harriet Morris (1880 - 1961) and Barnard College alumna Mildred Morris, helped by their friend Beatrice Wigmore. In addition to tea and light lunches, The Copper Kettle sold Japanese and Chinese basketry and gift wares; by 1915 they were also marketing confections or candies that were sold along the Southern Pacific Railroad route. The building that housed The Copper Kettle -- and, in fact, every shop on both sides of the street, and the entirety of Mercantile Place itself -- was demolished in 1923 as part of a large urban high-rise building program.]] | ||
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[[File:Copper-Kettle-Tea-Room-C-1910-Neuner-postcard-Front-2.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Copper Kettle Tea Room, 23 Mercantile Place, Los Angeles, California, circa 1910, Neuner postcard front, This shows a redecoration at The Copper Kettle, when compared to the 1909 published by the Benham Indian Trading Co. photo.]]] | [[File:Copper-Kettle-Tea-Room-C-1910-Neuner-postcard-Front-2.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Copper Kettle Tea Room, 23 Mercantile Place, Los Angeles, California, circa 1910, Neuner postcard front, This shows a redecoration at The Copper Kettle, when compared to the 1909 published by the Benham Indian Trading Co. photo.]]] | ||
[[File:Copper-Kettle-Tea-Room-Restaurant-C-1910-Neuner-postcard-Back-red-runners-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Copper Kettle Tea Room, Restaurant, circa 1910, Neuner, postcard back.]] | [[File:Copper-Kettle-Tea-Room-Restaurant-C-1910-Neuner-postcard-Back-red-runners-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Copper Kettle Tea Room, Restaurant, circa 1910, Neuner, postcard back.]] | ||
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[[File:Mary-Louise-Tea-Room-Foyer-Los-Angeles-postcard-front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Mary Louise Tea Room Foyer, Los Angeles, California, interior, postcard front. The Mary Louise Tea Room complex occupied a medium-sized building opposite Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park) in Los Angeles. Within its boxy stucco exterior there were rooms furnished according to certain themes. The foyer, which also housed a gift shop, was in lush art deco style. Women frequented the Mary Louise for casual lunches, and they could reserve rooms for club meetings or private parties, and would therefore meet in the foyer. In addition to some statuary, The Mary Louise gift shop carried quite an amazing array of fine porcelain boudoir half-dolls, as can be seen. (To those who are either curious or enthusiastic about porcelain half-dolls, all i can say is that this site is half-doll friendly, and i may write a page on half-doll tea cozies at a later date, but for the true half-doll experience, you should conduct an internet search on your own to find the motherlode of half-doll imagery and the nexi of half-doll collector conversations.) At the far end of the foyer, you can see the formal claret-coloured valances and lace curtains of the main tea room, as well a a rolling tea-cart. White drapery held up over the open entry to the tea room indicates that if it were booked for a large party or reception, it could be closed off to the public.]] | [[File:Mary-Louise-Tea-Room-Foyer-Los-Angeles-postcard-front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Mary Louise Tea Room Foyer, Los Angeles, California, interior, postcard front. The Mary Louise Tea Room complex occupied a medium-sized building opposite Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park) in Los Angeles. Within its boxy stucco exterior there were rooms furnished according to certain themes. The foyer, which also housed a gift shop, was in lush art deco style. Women frequented the Mary Louise for casual lunches, and they could reserve rooms for club meetings or private parties, and would therefore meet in the foyer. In addition to some statuary, The Mary Louise gift shop carried quite an amazing array of fine porcelain boudoir half-dolls, as can be seen. (To those who are either curious or enthusiastic about porcelain half-dolls, all i can say is that this site is half-doll friendly, and i may write a page on half-doll tea cozies at a later date, but for the true half-doll experience, you should conduct an internet search on your own to find the motherlode of half-doll imagery and the nexi of half-doll collector conversations.) At the far end of the foyer, you can see the formal claret-coloured valances and lace curtains of the main tea room, as well a a rolling tea-cart. White drapery held up over the open entry to the tea room indicates that if it were booked for a large party or reception, it could be closed off to the public.]] | ||
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[[File:Mary-Louise-Tea-Room-Los-Angeles-Interior-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Mary Louise Tea Room, Los Angeles, Interior, postcard back]] | [[File:Mary-Louise-Tea-Room-Los-Angeles-Interior-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Mary Louise Tea Room, Los Angeles, Interior, postcard back]] | ||
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[[File:Mary-Louise-Italian-Tea-Garden-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Mary Louise Italian Tea Garden postcard front]] | [[File:Mary-Louise-Italian-Tea-Garden-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Mary Louise Italian Tea Garden postcard front]] | ||
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[[File:Mary-Louise-Tea-Room-Mah-Jong-Room-Los-Angeles-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|The Mah Jong Room at the Mary Louise Tea Room complex opposite Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park) in Los Angeles, California. This flower-bedecked Chinoisserie room was reserved for parties of women who wanted to play the Chinese game of mah-jong, which was very popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Note the harmonious colour scheme of muted blues and yellows, the gilded curio niche with enshrined Orientalia, the lovely carpets, and the woven rattan furnishings, which are similar to those at the Copper Kettle Tea Room in Los Angeles, California, and at the Sun Parlor Tea Room at the Young Women's Christian Association in Dallas, [[Texas Tea Rooms|Texas]]. Tea came from China, and there were many importers of Asian goods located on the West Coast, so outfitting a tea room as a Chinoisserie was not difficult to accomplish prior to World War Two.]] | [[File:Mary-Louise-Tea-Room-Mah-Jong-Room-Los-Angeles-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|The Mah Jong Room at the Mary Louise Tea Room complex opposite Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park) in Los Angeles, California. This flower-bedecked Chinoisserie room was reserved for parties of women who wanted to play the Chinese game of mah-jong, which was very popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Note the harmonious colour scheme of muted blues and yellows, the gilded curio niche with enshrined Orientalia, the lovely carpets, and the woven rattan furnishings, which are similar to those at the Copper Kettle Tea Room in Los Angeles, California, and at the Sun Parlor Tea Room at the Young Women's Christian Association in Dallas, [[Texas Tea Rooms|Texas]]. Tea came from China, and there were many importers of Asian goods located on the West Coast, so outfitting a tea room as a Chinoisserie was not difficult to accomplish prior to World War Two.]] | ||
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+ | === Oakland, CA === | ||
[[File:Hotel-Oakland-Tea-Room-Serving-Afternoon-Tea-at-the-Hotel-Oakland-Oakland-California-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|400px|Hotel Oakland Tea Room, Serving Afternoon Tea at the Hotel Oakland, Oakland, California postcard front.jpg]] | [[File:Hotel-Oakland-Tea-Room-Serving-Afternoon-Tea-at-the-Hotel-Oakland-Oakland-California-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|400px|Hotel Oakland Tea Room, Serving Afternoon Tea at the Hotel Oakland, Oakland, California postcard front.jpg]] | ||
[[File:Hotel-Oakland-Tea-Room-Serving-Afternoon-Tea-at-the-Hotel-Oakland-Oakland-California-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Hotel Oakland Tea Room, Serving Afternoon Tea at the Hotel Oakland, Oakland, California postcard back.jpg]] | [[File:Hotel-Oakland-Tea-Room-Serving-Afternoon-Tea-at-the-Hotel-Oakland-Oakland-California-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Hotel Oakland Tea Room, Serving Afternoon Tea at the Hotel Oakland, Oakland, California postcard back.jpg]] | ||
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+ | === Pacific Grove, CA === | ||
[[File:Japanese-Tea-Garden-1910s-Pacific-Grove-California-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Japanese Tea Garden, 1910s, Pacific Grove, California, postcard front.jpg]] | [[File:Japanese-Tea-Garden-1910s-Pacific-Grove-California-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Japanese Tea Garden, 1910s, Pacific Grove, California, postcard front.jpg]] | ||
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+ | === Pasadena, CA === | ||
[[File:Samovar-Tea-Room-Pasadena-California-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Samovar Tea Room, Pasadena California, postcard front.jpg]] | [[File:Samovar-Tea-Room-Pasadena-California-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Samovar Tea Room, Pasadena California, postcard front.jpg]] | ||
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[[File:Samovar-Tea-Room-Pasadena-California-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Samovar Tea Room, Pasadena California, postcard back.jpg]] | [[File:Samovar-Tea-Room-Pasadena-California-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Samovar Tea Room, Pasadena California, postcard back.jpg]] | ||
+ | === San Francisco, CA === | ||
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+ | [[File:Laurel-Court-Tea-Room-1910-Postcard-Interior-Fairmont-Hotel-SF-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Laurel Court Tea Room, 1910 Postcard Interior, Fairmont Hotel, SF, postcard front]] | ||
+ | [[File:Laurel-Court-Tea-Room-1910-Postcard-Interior-Fairmont-Hotel-SF-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Laurel Court Tea Room, 1910 Postcard Interior, Fairmont Hotel, SF, postcard back]] | ||
<i><b>catherine yronwode</b><br>curator, historian, and docent | <i><b>catherine yronwode</b><br>curator, historian, and docent | ||
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Revision as of 21:46, 25 October 2020
California Tea Room Postcard Gallery.
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Los Angeles, CA
]Oakland, CA
Pacific Grove, CA
Pasadena, CA
San Francisco, CA
catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room