Hi Hat Cocktail Lounge, Ambassador Hotel, Washington D.C. 1930s Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) cocktail lounge

cocktail lounge

*Courtesy UNLV Special Collections

making announcements on the train’s public address system

at the time

Hi Hat Cocktail Lounge, Ambassador Hotel, Washington D.C. 1930s Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) cocktail loungeThis is an amazing black and white menu cover from the bar of the 500 room Ambassador Hotel in downtown Washington D. C. which closed decades ago. We're not quite sure why a ballerina* is dancing in a champagne glass covered by a top hat but the menu is post Prohibition, from the late 1930s, and clearly everyone was having a very good time. The haughty and cheerful expression on the waiter's face is also terrific. The Hi Hat bar was open from 8am to