{"id":4493,"date":"2013-06-11T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T22:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2013-06-17T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T22:23:58","slug":"hamburger-hamlet-founder-harry-lewis-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/11\/hamburger-hamlet-founder-harry-lewis-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburger Hamlet Founder Harry Lewis Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kswt.com\/story\/22559704\/harry-lewis-founder-of-hamburger-hamlet-dies\" target=\"_blank\">from KSWT<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Harry Lewis, founder of Hamburger Hamlet, dies<\/h1>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Hamburger Hamlet\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldlarestaurants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hamlet011.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"300\" \/><\/center>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; Harry Lewis, founder of the Hamburger Hamlet chain whose regular customers included Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth Taylor, has died at age 93.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times (<a href=\"http:\/\/lat.ms\/1bqkpkA\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lat.ms\/1bqkpkA<\/a>\u00a0) reports Lewis died Sunday at a convalescent home in Beverly Hills. His son, Adam, tells the newspaper that his father was compulsively driven by attention to detail and would cook 30 hamburgers at once.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis was an actor who appeared in the 1948 movie &#8220;Key Largo&#8221; before founding Hamburger Hamlet chain in 1950 with his future wife, Marilyn.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurants were decorated with movie memorabilia and offered customized hamburgers long before the idea became trendy.<\/p>\n<p><em>click to read about the Hamlet at the deliciously cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldlarestaurants.com\/hamburger-hamlet\/\" target=\"_blank\">OldLARestaurants.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kswt.com\/story\/22559704\/harry-lewis-founder-of-hamburger-hamlet-dies\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at KSWT.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from KSWT Harry Lewis, founder of Hamburger Hamlet, dies LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; Harry Lewis, founder of the Hamburger Hamlet chain whose regular customers included Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth Taylor, has died at age 93. The Los Angeles Times (http:\/\/lat.ms\/1bqkpkA\u00a0) reports Lewis died Sunday at a convalescent home in Beverly Hills. His son, Adam, tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}