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299:. Our mission was to play country standards to entertain the "tired businessman" who had come for the drinks, the steaks, and the waitresses in classic Western saloon girl attire. On slow nights we'd play original songs I was writing for Mark's emerging comic persona.... Mark came in one night wearing a matching dark blue twill shirt and trouser outfit I went out and bought one just like it. By and by we had oval patches over the pockets with our names in them. ... So we became guys who worked at the gas station. ... Our imaginations were taking over and our Pump Boys repertoire began to grow. The Cattleman management soon grew tired of this nonsense and showed us the saloon door. 203:
entertainer for thirty years, sits at the piano in a dimly lit corner ... and tries to whip the customers into a singing frame of mind. ... The customers who sit at cozily grouped tables and order their steaks and drinks from waiters wearing colored vests, string ties and garters on their sleeves can
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involves the restaurant: "In Manhattan, theme restaurants were blooming like plastic flowers in winter. ... The Cattleman had set the stage, or rather the stagecoach, for such funhouse eateries, supposedly patterned after a Kansas City steer palace. ..."
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I was a scuffling songwriter/guitarist and Mark Hardwick was a piano player/actor. ... Mark and I were unemployed and happy to take a job playing five nights a week in the Cattleman Lounge, attached to a restaurant on one of the darker blocks west of
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Meanwhile, a new giant had lumbered onto the scene. Larry Ellman, owner of the Cattleman, a riotously successful steakhouse, purchased the Longchamps chain, and partially metamorphosed it into his new bonanza, the Steak and
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In his twenties, Larry Ellman became the New York distributor for Automatique, a Danish firm that manufactured Wittenborg brand food-vending machines "similar in appearance and operation to the
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trend ... has acquired a new cabaret convert. It is the Cattleman, at Lexington Avenue and Forty-seventh Street, a restaurant and saloon designed to create the atmosphere of nineteenth-century
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The quartet is seen atop a stagecoach in front of the Cattleman Restaurant in New York where a formal announcement of the promotion was made to the press following a steak and eggs breakfast.
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Larry Ellman. During its heyday, The Cattleman attracted media attention as an early example of a theme restaurant, and it became the inspirational basis for the musical
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magazine printed the recipe for a house cocktail, the Cattleman's Cooler, "rom the Cattleman, a Manhattan dining spot that calls itself an adult Western restaurant."
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stare at a large painting of a nude that hangs on one wall, or guess the age and authenticity of the rifles and longhorns that decorate the long, mirrored bar.
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Ellman announced in 1997 that he and partners Edward Buyes and William Opper planned to recreate The Cattleman at 1241 Mamaroneck Avenue in
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On the Town in New York: The Landmark History of Eating, Drinking, and Entertainments from the American Revolution to the Food Revolution
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Rundgren said, "Kevin decided that, as much as he was into music, he was going to leave it all behind to manage
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The restaurant was known for the radio slogan "Where you can get your steak rare and entertainment well done."
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for his dad, Larry Ellman, who owned the Cattleman's Restaurants , a relatively upscale steak chain ."
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did part of its publicity at The Cattleman, photographing some of its stars atop a stagecoach there.
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full-page ad for The Cattleman, with description of restaurant and image of its stagecoach, at
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Mr. Ellman, who is also the owner of the Cattleman restaurant on East 45th Street....
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Ellman's son, Kevin Ellman, played drums and percussion in singer-songwriter
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Berman, Clare (January 12, 1970). "The Urban Strategist: Dial a Dinner".
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magazine said it was "one of the best dining emporiums in New York."
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Larry Ellman, 41-year-old president of the Cattleman....
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sessions every evening from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m., led by
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By 1972 at the latest, Ellman had additionally opened
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Index

Cattleman Restaurant

Steakhouse
Manhattan
New York City
steakhouse
New York City
restaurateur
Pump Boys and Dinettes
Automat
Lexington Avenue
Manhattan
New York City
Fred F. French Building
Fifth Avenue
Seventh Avenue
sing-along
Bill Farrell
The New York Times
sing-along
San Francisco
night-club
James Warren
Creepy
horror-comics
Warren Publishing
White Plains, New York
Todd Rundgren
Utopia
Grosset & Dunlap

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