Hotel New Yorker "Production", New York, 1942 Fifth Avenue These wonderful images come from

These wonderful images come from matchbook covers that were distributed free to customers (most people smoked cigarettes back then) as a marketing tool

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it shows that diners in the Clifton Hotel at Niagara Falls ate and drank very well indeed

This was unusual in the 19th century when eating was all about excess and extravagance to cover up poor standards of food preparation

Hotel New Yorker "Production", New York, 1942 Fifth Avenue These wonderful images come fromThis blue menu cover, last in the series of four, shows a train and a truck busily delivering goods around the country while a scientist is hard at work in a laboratory. All of this patriotic stuff didn't stop customers from eating well. The interior menu is impressive and we love the fact that the exotically named Miss Lola M. Clute was in charge of the coffee shop. Click through to see the other menu covers. They are reproduced as a collection of