1871-1929 | 1930's | 1940's & 1950's | 1960 - Present 

1944: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall celebrate their first date at Table 30. They first work together in To Have and Have Not, written by another '21' regular, Ernest Hemingway (who was caught making love to gangster Legs Diamond’s girlfriend in the '21' kitchen in 1931). Notable writers frequenting '21' at the time include Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Lillian Hellman. 

1945: Spellbound hits theatres and is one of the earliest films to feature/mention '21' Club.  According to Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal, authors of Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco, Mr. Hitchcock had a long-standing connection to the '21' Club. Starting with his first trip to the United States from England in the late 1930s, he was a regular patron of the restaurant throughout his life. 

July 20, 1941: Charlie Berns is pardoned by FDR. The official pardon reads, “…pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to an indictment charging the maintenance of a common nuisance where intoxicating liquor was kept, sold, and bartered, in violation of the National Prohibition Act, and on March eleventh, 1929, was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00)..."

1946: Walter Weiss comes to work for '21' as a waiter ultimately becoming "the legendary Maitre'd" according to his NY Times obituary. Ultimately responsible for which celebrity or VIP sat where, nobody 'dressed a room' like Mr. Weiss. His much beloved successor is Oreste Carnevali, who came to ‘21’ in 1994 from the Four Seasons.  

1953-1958:  That's the fact Jack: acclaimed actor Warren Oates (Sgt. Hulka from Stripes) worked off and on as a coat- and hat-check person at '21'.

1957: Hollywood comes to '21' and shoots scenes for the classic films 'All About Eve' and 'The Sweet Smell of Success'.