Dan Tana, who opened the iconic West Hollywood celebrity hangout Dan Tana’s restaurant in 1964 and ran it until selling in 2009, has died. He was 90.

The restaurant released a statement , saying, “The great Dan Tana has passed on. We all know that he created a very magical place. Our beloved little yellow house will forever feel his presence.

“Dan started out working for La Scala and The Villa Capri in the 1950s. It was working for those classic eateries that encouraged him to open his own! And he did just that. He was always proud of where he came from and what he accomplished, a former soccer star from Yugoslavia.

“Dan had wonderful stories about Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, James Dean, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis. In fact Robert Urich’s character was named after Dan Tana on the

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