Blue Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Gay also have fruit

also have fruit

The artist may well have drawn the menu cover in exchange for being allowed to eat in the restaurant

after the repeal of Prohibition

make great cakes and desserts

keeping an eye on staff and talking to customers

Blue Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Gay also have fruitThe Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858. They take the form of a one sided dialogue between the author and other residents of a New England Boarding House. This lovely literary nod by the 2,500 room Hotel New Yorker for its breakfast menu shows that the management knew their clientele very well indeed. The 1940s and 1950s saw