he played host at the restaurant to Britain’s Duke of Windsor (then Prince of Wales) and the Astors and Vanderbilts
ragtime - a style of early jazz music written largely for the piano and characterized by jaunty rhythms – was enormously popular
Their motto: "Quality Foods
" maitre d' Jesus Adorno told The London Evening Standard
This stylish menu cover showing the stainless steel speedster in all its glory was used in the dining car
Midland Hotel, Birmingham England 1920s Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) he played host at theThis gorgeous menu cover in jewel colours features characters from a Venetian masked ball, and we believe it is dated during the 1920s. It comes from The Midland Hotel, Birmingham, and features cocktails in fashion during that era many of which we have never heard of. There is Palace Favourite, Bosom Caresser, Prince of Wales, Duke of York and a President Lincoln. Absinthe, the hallucinogenic drink that was known by its nickname Green Fairy, is also