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Port Arthur, New York, 1920sA Chinese immigrant, Chu Gam Fai, established The Port Arthur Restaurant on New York's Mott Street in 1897, naming it after his home city on China's northeast coast. With a garish pagoda style frontage, the property stood out among the joss houses, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and gambling parlors of the Lower East Side. Located on the second and third floors of 7 9 Mott Street, it became a magnet for "slummers" American tourists looking to do

Fidel Castro and his revolutionary forces took power the following day and closed the island’s casinos

was from Liverpool

It depicts a parade of animals bringing out food to be served to customers

Proprietor Jim Ireland expanded the property over two decades

The cover of this (circa) 1900 Fifth Avenue Hotel breakfast menu shows an engraving of the early wayside stop which was known as Madison Cottage

he was one of the artists directed by President Hoover to create public works

adorable poodles illustrated a menu from one of the final voyages of the RMS Franconia

One of the joys of vintage menu art is putting together the story behind the image and we'd love other opinions on this

The company established offices in New York in 1924 and sold embroidered table linens and accessories to department stores and specialty stores throughout the US

This children’s menu features a version of the cartoon character Snow White and is probably dated in 1938

Marlene Dietrich and Boris Karloff are likely to have been entertained here after they performed in the theater

they could be charged with “disrupting the social and moral order

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