Café Society Uptown Rear Cover, New York 1940s Station While one drives the fire

While one drives the fire engine

This promotional brochure for the Cabin Grill in New York City dates to about 1935 and is a nostalgic look back at the naughty days of Prohibition

Drawn by the falling franc and the free-flowing booze –Prohibition was in full force in the US – the rich and the carefree enjoyed a joyous

the Inversnaid Hotel still exists and their facilities are much improved from what was offered on this tariff card and menu from the 1880s

Virginia Woolf

Café Society Uptown Rear Cover, New York 1940s Station While one drives the fireCaf Society was a New York City nightclub open from 1938 to 1948 at Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village, and managed by Barney Josephson. Josephson created the club to showcase African American talent and to be an American version of the political cabarets he had seen in Europe earlier. As well as running the first racially integrated night club in the United States, Josephson also intended the club to defy the pretensions of the rich; he chose the