A glimpse of the Beatrice Inn, pre-hipster

The hipsterized, ultra-exclusive Beatrice Inn of today used to be an undistinguished neighborhood Italian place, no doorman necessary. The celebrity draw back in the day? It was more like Village writers Dawn Powell and e.e. cummings, not the Olsen twins.

This ad comes from a 1960s Cue magazine. 

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