Someone recently sent me photos of a Sontag lunch counter menu in which I spotted an item called a “Chocolate Mondae.” Is it an ice-cream sundae you have to get over the Monday blues?
** UPDATE ** – Gregory H says: “Based on the date on the menu this appears to be either 1941 or 1947, the only two years in the ’40s in which June 30th fell on Monday. Based on the prices here vs those mentioned in their newspaper ads, this appears to be from 1941.”
Carron L. says: “From what I can find Mondae is a sauce involving chocolate and prunes. I suppose that means it should not be eaten in excess.”
The drugstore on the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Cherokee (NE corner) when I was growing up in the ’40’s was a Sontag Drugstore.
Ironically, “Sontag” is German for Sunday.
Site of Sontag on Cherokee was once Bee Drug Company under The Virginia Hotel. In between, it was The Jade Cafe. The Jade Lounge in the Sontag era sat a few doors east.