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Could the Sixty Club be Hollywood?
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Adolph “Eddie” Brandstatter Born in France and trained in cafes in London, Paris and New York. Divorced his wife Rose in 1925. His first restaurant was probably the Sunset Inn in Santa Monica, jointly owned with Mike Lyman. He built the famous Montmartre (originally call the Sixty Club) at a cost of 150,000 dollars with an Italian Renaissance design on Hollywood Blvd. He also operated the Embassy Club next door to the Montmartre. He later made a go at a Hollywood Sardi’s at 6313 Hollywood Blvd. designed by architects A.C. Balch and R.W. Schindler in the art deco style. At one point he was charged with grand theft in a dispute with Real Estate man C.E.Toberman concerning taking a“nude statute”and other valuables from the Montmartre (after it was sold in a bankruptcy auction), and he was convicted. He was given two years probation after returning the property. In 1934, he was again convicted for illegal selling liquor at Sardi’s. Sardi’s was destroyed in a fire 11-2-1936. His troubled career ended when he died on January 20, 1940 by suicide (carbon monoxide poisoning in his car) at age 54. He has a Jewish funeral at Forest Lawn. He was found dead by his wife Helen at their home garage in Sherman Oaks. Hedda Hoppa called him the “man who fed and befriended most of Hollywood during their slim days”.

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