California Tea Rooms
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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-Tea-Room-Lost-Angeles-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Mary Louise Tea Room, Lost Angeles postcard back]] | ||
[[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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catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room