Kan's San Francisco Restaurant Autograph Book
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Kan's San Francisco Restaurant Autograph Book. Red leather hardcover with gilt tooled lettering, cardboard sleeve. Full of signatures of prominent figures from the 1950s to late 1970s, many with personalized notes or sketches. Languages include Chinese, French, Thai, Egyptian, and Japanese. Signatures include Winston Churchill, Anne Bancroft, Terry Bradshaw, William Shatner, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, Monty Hall, Jack Cummings, Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Groucho Marks, Cary Grant, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Goldie Hawn, Gdene Wilder, Barbra Streisand, Chevy Chase, Dick Cavett, Michael Douglas, Andy WIlliams, Francis Ford Copola, Chuck Woolery, Julia Child, Carl Reiner, Itzak Perlman, Ruth Bussy, Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Shari Lewis and Lambchop, Jimmy Stewart, Pat Morita, David Carradine, Lois Maxwell, Hubert Humphrey, Mel Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Joe Namath, etc. {Approximate dimensions: 13 1/2" high x 10 1/2" wide.}. Condition: Sleeve with significant wear. The book with some wear to the cover and separation to the binding. Kan's was an award-winning restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. Opened by Johnny Kan in 1953, it featured Cantonese haute cuisine and was frequented by many celebrities. Kan also published a book on Cantonese cuisine, Eight Immortal Flavors.
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