ektaylor
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Any decent restaurant served wine in the 60s. It's just that you only had 2 choices: red or white.
I'll take your word for it. Interestingly, here's the 1962 "Wines and Liquors" menu from Helsinki restaurant in New York. The only wine they seem to offer is port and sherry.
http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1687461&t=w
In this 1959 lunch menu from Schrafft's Restaurant on Fifth Ave. or 42nd St, NY, wine isn't mentioned. Just an Old Fashioned, Gibson, Daiquiri, and Manhattan.
http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1687435&t=w
In the 1957 menu at The Forum of the Twelve Caesars (probably in New York?), it seems their "wine selection" is limited to "A Glass of Vintage Port" under the "The Cheeses of Europa" section.
http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1687480&t=w