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Dan Tana, who as soon as owned the legendary eatery that also bears his identify, has died at 90.
Dan Tana’s introduced Saturday on Fb, “The good Dan Tana has handed on. Everyone knows that he created a really magical place. Our beloved little yellow home will ceaselessly really feel his presence.”
Tana, a soccer star within the former Yugoslavia in his youth, emigrated to the U.S. and labored first for La Scala and the Villa Capri within the ’50s, which impressed him to launch his personal restaurant. By then, he had invaluable expertise and had unimaginable tales of serving everybody from Marilyn Monroe to James Dean to the Rat Pack.
Dan Tana’s was based in 1964, changing into by the top of the last decade the popular eatery for Hollywood people looking for an unpretentious place to unwind and dine on an ideal steak.
Among the many well-known names who helped make its repute: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Elton John, Bette Midler, Linda Ronstadt, Dabney Coleman, Harry Dean Stanton and particularly Johnny Carson.
The place impressed loyalty amongst staff, together with Mike Gotovac, who labored there greater than 50 years, earlier than dying of COVID in 2020.
Dan Tana’s was so in style that Robert Urich’s character on the favored TV collection “Vega$” (1978-1981) was named “Dan Tanna” in Tana’s honor.
When the construction burned in 1980, it was his celeb friendships that helped Tana re-open rapidly.
In 2009, Tana offered his enterprise to Mihajlo Perenčević and his then spouse Sonja, the latter of whom owns it to this present day.
“This man is a legend,” the restaurant’s Fb account ended its announcement, and as you realize, a legend by no means dies.”