BUILDING A GREAT MUSEUM FOR THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
Believe in Dreams? The Listen... (Introduction on original menu)
Perhaps you have just ordered
dinner. While awaiting its arrival you glance at the menu. Unusual, is it
not" you've noticed too that the entire atmosphere here is different.
Accident/or design? Let's say, rather, that it is a dream than a reality. It is
a dream that has become a reality.It happened during the earlier
days of the ar. A man
and his wife sat in a small room in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. She had
arrived that day from Van Nuys, California, to be with him on his last weekend.
Tomorrow would find him on his way to the South Pacific.Talk had been desultory – forced. Would he be back, both
thought this. Neither mentioned it. For awhile they talk of their family – three
boys and a girl. That, too, wrenched. Suddenly, the wife had an idea. Casual
like, she said "just what plans have you made for when you
return?"" He brightened, then answered: "ever since I was a kid
I've had an idea for a restaurant that would be just a little different. You
know…"
Well, he came back. And you're sitting in that very restaurant. It didn't just happen, at that. There were three long years of letter writing between these two. The letter had a similarity of start and finish. The start,.
Sure! She just had another idea for his restaurant. And so it went throughout the long and uncertain wait until finally it was all over and he came home.
With a background of 15 years in this business he was anxious to get started. Building conditions, however, hampered him for quite some time.
Them, at long last, the site of this present building became available. The results are all around you.We'd like for you to study them well. Enjoy them. And on your way out say hello to your host Jim Otto, the guy who had the dream and lived to see if to see its fulfillment.
Well, he came back. And you're sitting in that very restaurant. It didn't just happen, at that. There were three long years of letter writing between these two. The letter had a similarity of start and finish. The start,.
Sure! She just had another idea for his restaurant. And so it went throughout the long and uncertain wait until finally it was all over and he came home.
With a background of 15 years in this business he was anxious to get started. Building conditions, however, hampered him for quite some time.
Them, at long last, the site of this present building became available. The results are all around you.We'd like for you to study them well. Enjoy them. And on your way out say hello to your host Jim Otto, the guy who had the dream and lived to see if to see its fulfillment.
And come again won't you?
Bar in the historic Valley Inn 2014 - Photo by Jerry Fecht
Furnishings in the original Valley Inn c. 1948
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