Word: hangouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Luchow's Restaurant, a favorite hangout of Teddy Roosevelt and Jenny Lind, where Diamond Jim Brady went for bearnaise sauce, Enrico Caruso for pigs' knuckles and John Philip Sousa for imported frankfurters, was sold by Proprietor Victor Eckstein (an heir of Founder August Luchow) for about $500,000. Although the restaurant will carry on under new management, Oldtimer H. L. Mencken mourned: "It's the end of civilization...