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In 1954 the restaurant suffered another disastrous fire, blamed on a discarded cigarette left on an upholstered chair, which cost $ 250,000 in damages ($ 2,843,478 in 2023 dollars ). Paul
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was served at the table prepared from an antique duck press that belonged to Joan
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