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The Cattleman〔 Retrieved on | October 6, 2012.〕 was a steakhouse in New York City founded in 1959 by restaurateur 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 ''Pump Boys and Dinettes''. ==History== 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 Automat."〔 Retrieved on | October 6, 2012.〕 Proceeds from the sale of his business enabled him to pursue his first restaurant venture. The Cattleman opened at Lexington Avenue and East 47th Street in Manhattan, New York City, in 1959. Its sales that year reached $450,000 and by 1967 were over $4,000,000 a year at the 400-seat restaurant.〔 By 1980 at the latest, The Cattleman was located at 5 East 45th Street,〔 also known as 551 Fifth Avenue,〔 the Fred F. French Building. By 1972 at the latest, Ellman had additionally opened The Cattleman West at 154 West 51st Street, at Seventh Avenue.〔 Retrieved on | October 6, 2012.〕 The restaurants closed circa 1989. Starting in 1961, Ellman introduced sing-along sessions every evening from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. led by Bill Farrell.〔 By at least 1968, the restaurant offered "free stagecoach rides around the city" on Saturday and Sunday from 5 to 9:30 p.m.〔 Retrieved on October 5, 2012.〕 As ''The New York Times'' described in 1967: In 1964, publisher James Warren held the launch party for ''Creepy'', the first horror-comics magazine of Warren Publishing, at The Cattleman. A history of New York dining, ''On the Town in New York'' (1998), called the restaurant a "riotously successful steakhouse".〔 Retrieved on October 4, 2012.〕 In 1961, ''The Theatre'' magazine said it was "one of the best dining emporiums in New York." Ellman announced in 1997 that he and partners Edward Buyes and William Opper planned to recreate The Cattleman at 1241 Mamaroneck Avenue in White Plains, New York, in November of that year. Ellman's son, Kevin Ellman, played drums and percussion in singer-songwriter Todd Rundgren's 1973-1986 band Utopia, leaving it in 1975.〔Rundgren said, "Kevin decided that, as much as he was into music, he was going to leave it all behind to manage Beefsteak Charlie's for his dad, Larry Ellman, who owned the Cattleman's Restaurants (), a relatively upscale steak chain ()." Retrieved on October 5, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Cattleman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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