California Tea Rooms
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[[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.]] | ||
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+ | [[File:Red-Cross-Tea-Shop-Long-Beach-CA-RPPC-Front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|The Red Cross Tea Room, Long Beach California, real photo post card, circa 1910; the decor is unusual, for in addition to the customary potted plants and painted garden lattice-work, there are oversized painted silhouettes of parrots in the window and on the walls.]] | ||
== Los Angeles, California == | == Los Angeles, California == |
Revision as of 22:56, 14 October 2022
California State Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town.
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Buena Park, California
Long Beach, 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