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Toots Shor’s original establishment was razed 60 years ago, a first jolt of the changes coming to Midtown’s drinking, sporting and entertainment scene.
AT the height of his fame in the 1950s, Toots Shor was the world’s best-known restaurateur, a quintessential New York character who hobnobbed with Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason, Joe DiMaggio … ...
Toots Shor was perhaps the greatest sports bar of all time. And it was made great by what would probably disqualify it from even being considered a sports bar today: There were no TVs offering ...
Early on in "Toots," the new documentary about legendary New York saloon keeper Toots Shor, we get to see Frank Sinatra recalling the night Toots asked him to come to dinner at his joint with some ...
If you were a celebrity in New York from 1940 through the early 1960s, the place to be was Toots Shor’s, where you’d find sports icons, journalists, actors, mobsters or politicians, all ...
Toots got $1,500,000 for his lease, took off for Europe, then returned to New York to eat and drink in other places while he waited fitfully for workmen to build a new restaurant a block north.
AT the height of his fame in the 1950s, Toots Shor was the world’s best-known restaurateur, ... Regulars at his eponymous restaurant on West 52nd Street included Dean Martin, ...
Was Toots Shor, the saloon-restaurant at 51 W. 51st St., real? Or was it dreamed up as a place for Tony Curtis’s Sidney Falco to meet with Burt Lancaster’s J.J. Hunsecker in “Sweet Smell of Success”?
The New Yorker, November 25, 1950 P. 42. PROFILE of Toots Shor, prop. of the restaurant by the same name, which some of its patrons have called The Temple of Friendship.
Kristi Jacobson made this documentary about her grandfather Toots Shor, whose restaurant and saloon were the locus of the '40s and '50s New York social world - not the born-wealthy social world ...