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The Pump Room was a restaurant established on October 1, 1938 by Ernie Byfield. It closed in 2017, then reopened under different names. [ 1 ] It is located in the Ambassador Chicago hotel, formerly known as the Ambassador East, on the northeast corner of State Parkway and Goethe Street in Chicago 's Gold Coast area.
The Pump Room was the brainchild of Ernie Byfield. [4] The interior was originally designed by the Samuel Abraham Marx. [19] The restaurant's heyday was in the 1950s and 1960s. [12] After the 2017 closure of The Pump Room, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises opened a new restaurant in the space named "Booth One". [20]
Ernest Lessing Byfield (November 3, 1889 – 10 February 1950) was an American hotelier and restaurateur from the 1930s through the 1950s in Chicago, Illinois.Byfield operated the Hotel Sherman Co., including the Ambassador East and West, the Sherman House Hotel, the Fort Dearborn and the Drake hotels and The Pump Room and College Inn restaurants.
Schaller’s Original Pump was the oldest bar and restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. [1] Located at 3714 South Halsted Street, the Pump was opened in 1881 by George “Harvey” Schaller and was owned and operated by the founder’s descendants until its closure in 2017. It was a local landmark in the Chicago South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport.
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The album is named after an incident at The Pump Room restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. Collins, entering the restaurant with former Led Zeppelin lead vocalist Robert Plant , [ 28 ] was denied admittance because he did not meet the restaurant's dress code of "jacket required" for dinner, while Plant was allowed in. [ 29 ] Collins was wearing a ...
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