California Tea Rooms
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California State Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town. | California State Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town. | ||
- | == Buena Park== | + | == Buena Park, California == |
[[File:Knotts-Berry-Place-Tea-Room-circa-1937-Buena-Park-CA-photo.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Knott's Berry Place Tea Room, Buena Park, California, circa 1937. Although the signage identifies it merely as a "Berry Place," the accompanying menu booklet states that this is a tea room. The Berry Place Tea Room, which opened in 1934, was operated by Cordelia Knott as an adjunct to a large berry farm she co-owned with her husband, Walter Knott. Chicken dinners and boysenberry pies were her stock in trade, and a small gift shop sold her boysenberry jams and preserves. Mrs. Knott's cooking attracted huge crowds, which necessitated enlarging the dining space several times. To keep waiting patrons in a happy frame of mind until tables opened up for them, Walter Knott built a rock garden and waterfall, followed by a western Ghost Town. Eventually, all of the farm land was given over to a popular theme park, Knott's Berry Farm, complete with a narrow-gauge steam train, several roller coaster rides, a theater, and a plethora of costumed characters -- and the berries were grown off-site. Cordelia Knott passed away in 1974 at the age of 84, and Walter died in 1981, just short of his 92nd birthday. In 1997, the Knott family sold the park to a corporation, which runs it to this day. Thus Knott's Berry Place Tea Room may be the single most successful tea room in history. See also the lovely 1937 menu, on our [[Vintage_Tea_Room_Menus#California_Tea_Room_Menus|Vintage Tea Room Menus]] page.]] | [[File:Knotts-Berry-Place-Tea-Room-circa-1937-Buena-Park-CA-photo.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Knott's Berry Place Tea Room, Buena Park, California, circa 1937. Although the signage identifies it merely as a "Berry Place," the accompanying menu booklet states that this is a tea room. The Berry Place Tea Room, which opened in 1934, was operated by Cordelia Knott as an adjunct to a large berry farm she co-owned with her husband, Walter Knott. Chicken dinners and boysenberry pies were her stock in trade, and a small gift shop sold her boysenberry jams and preserves. Mrs. Knott's cooking attracted huge crowds, which necessitated enlarging the dining space several times. To keep waiting patrons in a happy frame of mind until tables opened up for them, Walter Knott built a rock garden and waterfall, followed by a western Ghost Town. Eventually, all of the farm land was given over to a popular theme park, Knott's Berry Farm, complete with a narrow-gauge steam train, several roller coaster rides, a theater, and a plethora of costumed characters -- and the berries were grown off-site. Cordelia Knott passed away in 1974 at the age of 84, and Walter died in 1981, just short of his 92nd birthday. In 1997, the Knott family sold the park to a corporation, which runs it to this day. Thus Knott's Berry Place Tea Room may be the single most successful tea room in history. See also the lovely 1937 menu, on our [[Vintage_Tea_Room_Menus#California_Tea_Room_Menus|Vintage Tea Room Menus]] page.]] | ||
- | == Los Angeles, | + | == Los Angeles, California == |
[[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: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.]] | ||
- | == Oakland, | + | == Oakland, California == |
[[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]] | ||
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[[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]] | [[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]] | ||
- | ==Pacific Grove, | + | ==Pacific Grove, California == |
[[File:Japanese-Tea-Garden-1910s-Pacific-Grove-California-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Japanese Tea Garden, 1910s, Pacific Grove, California, postcard front]] | [[File:Japanese-Tea-Garden-1910s-Pacific-Grove-California-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Japanese Tea Garden, 1910s, Pacific Grove, California, postcard front]] | ||
- | == Pasadena, | + | == Pasadena, California == |
[[File:Samovar-Tea-Room-Pasadena-California-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Samovar Tea Room, Pasadena California, postcard front]] | [[File:Samovar-Tea-Room-Pasadena-California-Postcard-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Samovar Tea Room, Pasadena California, postcard front]] | ||
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[[File:Samovar-Tea-Room-Pasadena-California-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Samovar Tea Room, Pasadena California, postcard back]] | [[File:Samovar-Tea-Room-Pasadena-California-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Samovar Tea Room, Pasadena California, postcard back]] | ||
- | == San Francisco, | + | == San Francisco, California == |
[[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, San Francisco, postcard front.]] | [[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, San Francisco, postcard front.]] | ||
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[[File:Nanking-Tea-Room-Fook-Woh-Co-San-Franncisco-CA-exterior-postcard-front-1910s.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Nanking Tea Room, Fook Woh Co., San Francisco, California, exterior, postcard front. The card dates from 1908 - 1910. It has a divided back, was not postally used, and the vehicles include a street car, an open roadster, and two horse-drawn wagons. Other versions of this card exist, some with no surprinting in the sky area and some with the name Nanking in block letters rather than a script font. The building was erected after the 1906 earthquake and fire. It still exists and now houses a bank.]] | [[File:Nanking-Tea-Room-Fook-Woh-Co-San-Franncisco-CA-exterior-postcard-front-1910s.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Nanking Tea Room, Fook Woh Co., San Francisco, California, exterior, postcard front. The card dates from 1908 - 1910. It has a divided back, was not postally used, and the vehicles include a street car, an open roadster, and two horse-drawn wagons. Other versions of this card exist, some with no surprinting in the sky area and some with the name Nanking in block letters rather than a script font. The building was erected after the 1906 earthquake and fire. It still exists and now houses a bank.]] | ||
- | == Santa Rosa, | + | == Santa Rosa, California == |
[[File:Tudor-Rose-English-Tea-Room-Santa-Rosa-CA-interior-2-online-photo-2020.jpg|center|thumb|600px|The Tudor Rose English Tea Room in Santa Rosa, California, online photo circa 2020.]] | [[File:Tudor-Rose-English-Tea-Room-Santa-Rosa-CA-interior-2-online-photo-2020.jpg|center|thumb|600px|The Tudor Rose English Tea Room in Santa Rosa, California, online photo circa 2020.]] |
Revision as of 21:03, 17 December 2020
California State Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town.
Contents |
Buena Park, California
Los Angeles, California
]Oakland, California
Pacific Grove, California
Pasadena, California
San Francisco, California
Santa Rosa, California
catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room