Pigall's, Paris 1921 1884 made some changes and today

made some changes and today have a comfortable eating house  and surely a suggestion of good sea food with the open kitchen and charcoal broiler

Each print is accompanied by a copy of the interior menu

Fred Harvey immigrated to the US at the age of 17 and worked his way up from being a pot-scrubber in a restaurant in New York to starting the country’s first restaurant chain called Harvey Houses

In the restaurant's main room

The Riviera nightclub in Fort Lee

Pigall's, Paris 1921 1884 made some changes and todayA gentleman like me or you dines at Pigalls. says this wonderful restaurant advertising card from Paris in 1921. In this post war era France, Britain and Germany had signed an armistice to end the First World War Americans flooded into Paris. 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, Bohemian post war lifestyle. Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray, George Gershwin,