Café Continental, New York 1950s Overton's The Birmingham Coffee House Company

The Birmingham Coffee House Company was founded 1877

for the first 40 years one of its most profitable enterprises

This incredibly colorful and cheerful menu suggests that a grand fiesta was to be had while dining at Fonda Santa Anita

It features a chef

There's so much to love about this wonderful old menu from 1946

Café Continental, New York 1950s Overton's The Birmingham Coffee House CompanyThe Caf Continental was situated in the Barbizon Plaza Hotel on Central Park South. The cover features an illustration by John Held Jr. (1889 1958) an American cartoonist, printmaker, illustrator, and author. One of the best known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, Held created cheerful art showing his characters dancing, motoring and engaging in fun filled activities. The drawings depicted the flapper era in a way that both satirized and influenced