The Breakfast Autocrat, 1950s New York Kitchen Towel Birds is a great example of

is a great example of the modernist style or perhaps something between modernism and art deco

At Frenchy’s Black Cat Cafe the local newspaper reported that the choice of starter on the fixed lunch menu was "cocktail or soup” which makes us laugh

It was printed in 1892 for an annual dinner of the Holland Society of New York which took place at the Manhattan Athletic club

The New Zealand High Commission now occupies the site and all that remains of the Carlton Hotel is a plaque commemorating the fact that the young Ho Chi Minh worked there in 1913

The Sunset Limited is a passenger train that for most of its history has run between New Orleans and Los Angeles

The Breakfast Autocrat, 1950s New York Kitchen Towel Birds is a great example ofThe Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858. They take the form of a one sided dialogue between the author and other residents of a New England Boarding House. This lovely literary nod by the 2,500 room Hotel New Yorker for its breakfast menu shows that the management knew their clientele very well indeed. The 1940s and 1950s saw