1975 Los Angeles restaurant guide is a trip down memory lane with prices from a bygone era

Forget $20 cocktails. In 1975 Los Angeles, that much cash could buy chateaubriand for two at the Brown Derby, two coffees — and still leave $2 in your pocket. Redditors ate it up this week when one user cracked open a vintage copy of “The Menu Guide of Los Angeles,” revealing the wildly cheap-looking prices once charged by some of the city’s most famous restaurants. “I bought this for a friend but figured reddit would also like to take a peak,” the poster wrote alongside photos of the aging guide. “Some of these might still be around?” A Reddit user shared a menu guide for Los Angeles restaurants from 1975. Reddit/alishabrophy At Chez Jay in Santa Monica, the handwritten menu offered lobster thermidor for $6.50, a New York cut steak for $7.50 and a filet béarnaise for $7.75. Reddit/alishab