Palm Springs Town & Country Restaurant, California, 1950s Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The restaurant's early specialties included

The restaurant's early specialties included oyster stews

The Sunset Route (originating in New Orleans) is the southernmost of the three gateways to the West Coast

The owner was kitchenware distributor and restaurant designer I Arthur Ganger who operated another whimsical New York restaurant the "Bird in Hand" which specialized in fried chicken

But even that location proved too small

He opened his first Chili Bowl restaurant on Crenshaw Boulevard

Palm Springs Town & Country Restaurant, California, 1950s Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The restaurant's early specialties includedAccording to the Palm Springs Modern Committee the Palm Springs Town & Country Center, built between 1946 and 1955 "was once a glamorous retail, restaurant, and residential mixed use project designed over the years by a number of important visiting and local architects including A. Quincy Jones, Paul R. Williams, Albert Frey, John Porter Clark, Donald Wexler and Richard Harrison." The restaurant opened in 1948 and according to the Desert Sun it was