Pfeiffer's Russian Bar Buffalo, New York 1940s matchbook This is a marvelous vintage

This is a marvelous vintage menu cover showing a gussied-up crane in a chef’s hat

This wonderful illustration shows a dill pickle as if it were a zeppelin

and a growing population

A humorous take on street parades popular in America during the summer months

attracting royalty and other rich and powerful guests and diners

Pfeiffer's Russian Bar Buffalo, New York 1940s matchbook This is a marvelous vintageThis simple but striking design, with its clean lines and bold colours, is a great example of the modernist style or perhaps something between modernism and art deco. Moving away from excessive detail and ornament, we see growing use of modernism in commercial art and design from the 1940s onwards, particularly by the 1950s. At the time of this menu, Buffalo, New York, had a large Russian population. The drinks list of the Russian Bar totalled seven