Inside "New York's New Yorkiest" Joint: The Legendary Stork Club
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<p>This is the hand signal for: "The music in the main dining room is too loud."</p>
<p>Actor Gary Cooper and his wife listening to music at the Stork Club, 1944</p>
<p>The ladies powder room, 1944</p>
<p>Dining room, 1944</p>
<p>circa 1944</p>
<p>"A a fraction of the $100,000 worth of gifts that Stork Club owner Sherman Billingsley presented to his favorite patrons each year, including a gold compact with a horseshoe of diamonds and rubies ($1,500), perfume ($200), bottle of booze, cigar clippers, hosiery, and much more."</p>
<p>Mrs. Farrington at the Stork Club, 1949.</p>
<p>"Actor Orson Welles at table on left w. cigar in his mouth, along w. actress Margaret Sullavan & her husband, movie agent Leland Hayward (crew-cut haircut), center table has Leonard Lyons, Tom Manveille with 9th wife ? Billingsley and at the right table, Morton Downey (2R) in the Cub Room at the Stork Club."</p>
<p>Joe Dimaggio and Marilyn Monroe at the Stork Club</p>
<p>"Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are shown in their first appearance as husband and wife in the New York night life, at the Stork Club. March 25, 1946"</p>
<p>Billingsley opening the Stork</p>