The Blackstone, Chicago 1916 The Queen tight bodices and full-length skirts

tight bodices and full-length skirts felt safe enough to go shopping and meet for lunch without male companions

there were still many restaurants that catered to fine dining and The Mayflower – named after the ship that transported the first English Pilgrims from Plymouth to the New World in 1620 – was one of them

Duke of York and a President Lincoln

The company erased references to “Commodore “Vanderbilt” and it has been the Grand Hyatt since reopening in the 1980s

the year that Lindy died

The Blackstone, Chicago 1916 The Queen tight bodices and full-length skirtsWomen were protesting for the right to vote on the streets of Chicago when this 1916 menu was offered to patrons of the restaurant in the Blackstone Hotel, a Windy City landmark. During this era in the United States, hotel restaurants were considered fashionable and exclusive places for the wealthy and powerful to eat and were often designed, as writer Theodore Dreiser noted dryly, with many fake European touches. As you can see from the enormous food