New Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, Saul Bass Menu Art, 1956 carlton a crescent moon and zebra-striped

a crescent moon and zebra-striped banquettes

This menu is from a banquet held at Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club on January 12

offering light beer and expensive setups to which you could add your own liquor

hotel guests called room service if they wanted booze delivered to their rooms

The Childs brothers

New Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, Saul Bass Menu Art, 1956 carlton a crescent moon and zebra-stripedThe revered graphic designer Saul Bass, who was responsible for many of America's most iconic logos and created a new film genre when he invented the opening credits sequence in movies, designed this 1956 menu for the Venus Room in the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. The room was strikingly modern with its space age theme and this artwork depicting planets must have seemed it still is today new and exciting. The Venus Room hosted Elvis Presleys first