Madame Wu's Garden (A Pictorial History of a Celebrated Landmark)

In 1959, Sylvia Wu and her husband became proprietors of Madame Wu's Garden restaurant in Santa Monica. The restaurant became well-known worldwide for its celebrity clientele who hailed from Hollywood, the political sphere and all over the world. The regular celebrities included, among others, Cary Grant, Mae West, George Burns, Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Taylor, Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett, Walter Matthau, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Governor Pete Wilson, President Ronald Reagan, and Princess Grace Kelly.