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Cocktail napkin from Joe DiMaggio's World Famous
Restaurant & Cocktail lounge,
overlooking the world-famous
Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. In
1937, a season removed from his
All-Star rookie season with the New
York Yankees, Joe DiMaggio invested
$25,000 in the restaurant. Named "Joe
DiMaggio's Grotto," he brought his
brothers in, and left Tom in charge to
run the business. Their farther
Giuseppe was a lifelong fisherman, as
were generations of DiMaggio's before
him. Not long before the restaurant was
opened, the father and older brothers
set out every morning to take crabs off
the ocean floor. Joe received a
wholesale price of 22 cent a crab for
his catch.
The Napkin depicts a crossed bat and baseball design that
reads "Dinning * Dancing, at" above the
sweet spot which has a Joe DiMaggio's
facsimile autograph, followed by
"Fisherman's Wharf, in San Francisco,
Visit Our Lounge" The bottom panel
reads "Featured Joe DiMaggio, Cocktail"
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