Skipper Kent's, San Francisco & Zombie Village, Oakland 1960s

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Skipper Kent's, San Francisco & Zombie Village, Oakland 1960sFrank Skipper Kent was a pioneering restaurateur who opened the iconic tiki bar and restaurant Zombie Village in Oakland in May 1942, and later his namesake Skipper Kent's in San Francisco in 1944. Born in San Francisco one month after the 1906 earthquake, Kent started his career as a salesman for a baking products company and began building his own yacht. A few years later, he and his wife Lucille began to take sailing trips to far flung destinations

but restaurateurs and bar owners experimented with men only establishments in the 1930s as a way of picking up business after Prohibition ended

The Wonton section features "Yat gaw mein" soup

Cornelius Vanderbilt

The menu was a prime example of traditional dining choices of the day

When Chasen’s closed in 1995

the date of this menu

It closed in the 1980s

Baker performed for integrated audiences of American and French troops and worked for the French Resistance during WWII

California vintages – and a few choice wines imported from Italy –were decanted into handsome

both acclaimed fine dining establishments

There is no indication when it was created or where the location of this dinner was – it may be that Gladys Little was also the cook

This 1960s matchbook cover from Jilly’s even comes with Frank Sinatra’s personal endorsement