Clientele
Customers included tourists, the homeless, diplomats, lobbyists, lawyers, bureaucrats and bankers. Presidents Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter all patronized the restaurant.
While Vice President, Truman stopped in for breakfast on his way to the White House from his Connecticut Avenue apartment.
Billionaire H. L. Hunt had Sholl's famous rhubarb pies flown in to his home in Texas.
A large portion of Sholl's business came from school groups on their annual trip to the nation's capital. Handwritten signs on the serving counter would comment on the day's specials, "Last night these oysters lay fast asleep in Cheasapeake Bay" .
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