A string quartet played during “luncheon” and a dance band livened up the evenings when a range of meals
would have been a very sophisticated cover at the time
introducing electric lights throughout the building
This two shillings and sixpence (12 1/2 pence in decimal) luncheon menu from October 1906 would have cost the 2010 (only data available) equivalent of £10
hamburgers and fries to customers for its menus and this is one of the earlier examples
The Blackhawk, Chicago, 1933 1960 A string quartet played duringThe Blackhawk opened its doors for the first time in Chicago on December 27, 1920, and generations of Americans eagerly gathered around their radios on Saturday nights to listen to its syndicated show "Live! From the Blackhawk!" Carlton Coon Joe Sanders and the Kansas City Nighthawks were the first house band and the actor and jazz singer Mel Torme, nicknamed the Velvet Fog because of the quality of his voice, debuted there in 1929, at the tender age