Ham & Eggs Incorporated, Los Angeles 1930s Metropole The satirist H L Mencken

The satirist H L Mencken is said to have called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet

grew to become one of the world's largest full- service restaurant company owning and operating more than 2

He was a prolific Scottish artist whose charming and detailed works appeared regularly in British and American periodicals in the first half of the 20th century

Judging by the prices of children’s meals

The word glacier in the name of the restaurant referred to the Italian ice-creams that the Neapolitan owner ordered to be prepared for his customers

Ham & Eggs Incorporated, Los Angeles 1930s Metropole The satirist H L MenckenThe delightfully named Ham and Eggs Incorporated was a caf on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in the 1930s when this famous street was still mainly a residential district. As far as we know, food dishes were scrawled on a blackboard so there was no paper menu. These wonderful images come from matchbook covers that were distributed free to customers (most people smoked cigarettes back then) as a marketing tool. These images epitomizes the charm and