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This napkin ring, is from Joe
DiMaggio's World Famous Restaurant &
Cocktail lounge, overlooking the
world-famous Fisherman's Wharf in San
Francisco. In 1937, a season removed
from his All-Star rookie season with
the New York Yankees, Joe DiMaggio
invested $25,000 in the restaurant.
Named "Joe DiMaggio's Grotto," he
brought his brothers in, and left Tom
in charge to run the business. Their
farther Giuseppe was a lifelong
fisherman, as were generations of
DiMaggio's before him. Not long before
the restaurant was opened, the father
and older brothers set out every
morning to take crabs off the ocean
floor. Joe received a wholesale price
of 22 cent a crab for his catch.
The wooden napkin ring has the shape of a fish at the top, and
reads "Souvenir From Joe
DiMaggio's, San Fransisco" on the tail.
The opposite side does not have the Joe
DiMaggio's baseball logo.
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