Hotel Pennsylvania, New York 1934 Maine Home of the Purified Lobster

Home of the Purified Lobster

This is a beautifully designed menu cover

The Mission Creamery was an ice cream parlor and café in San Francisco during the 1950s

There are ‘receipts’ – the term used at the time for recipes – for proper cocktails since drinking was now about something more than just getting drunk on cheap booze

and the white uniform caps of its pilots

Hotel Pennsylvania, New York 1934 Maine Home of the Purified LobsterThis austere but striking vintage menu cover is from the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York and is dated 1934. Its Art Deco influence is in the frames, the font and the mysterious flower object as the centerpiece. The Hotel Pennsylvania was opened in 1919 by the Pennsylvania Railroad company, which opened Penn Station across the street, and was originally run by Statler hotels. A New York landmark with 1700 bedrooms, it remains a popular place to stay in