If a look at the menu and the social stratification at Monkey Bar wasn't enough, Joshua David Stein finds out a little more about the mural that lines the back wall: "...Graydon had wanted it to be cafe society between the wars but who constituted cafe society was a kind of a blur so we decided essentially on a who's who of who is in New York between the wars. We have Fred Astaire....Henry Luce, Herb Ross, Conde Nast, Blanche and Adolph Ochs, the Fitzgeralds--Zelda and F Scott, Billie Rose, Dorothy Parker and Edna Ferber." [My Memoirs]
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