Sugie's Original Tropics, Beverly Hills, 1946 Hen Roadhouses were mostly located on

Roadhouses were mostly located on the edges of towns or along a road

The restaurant served early evening dinner-plate specials that included frogs’ legs

The menu's wonderful graphics and illustrations were truly evocative of the era

Prohibition had seen the decimation of the Californian wine industry

A popular feature in the early 1900s was The Cave

Sugie's Original Tropics, Beverly Hills, 1946 Hen Roadhouses were mostly located onSugie's Original "The Tropics" restaurant and club, was opened by an Englishman named Harry "Sugie" Sugarman in Beverly Hills in 1936. It had a Polynesian theme and billed itself as "the informal cocktail lounge and dining room of the motion picture industry." Certainly, if walls could talk, this bar and restaurant would have many tales to tell. Hollywood directors brought impressionable young starlets here and big name stars of the 30s and 40s often