Schrafft's, New York 1920 1957 The cover of the Stork

The cover of the Stork Club Bar Book

Hires Root Beer was created by pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires

At Frenchy’s Black Cat Cafe the local newspaper reported that the choice of starter on the fixed lunch menu was "cocktail or soup” which makes us laugh

Bosom Caresser

Schrafft's, New York 1920 1957 The cover of the StorkSchraffts began life as a candy manufacturer in Boston and in 1898 one its salesmen, a visionary man called Frank G Shattuck, opened the first store in New York. His sister Jane introduced the concept of light lunches and Schraffts developed into a chain of restaurants that was particularly popular with women. This 1920s menu cover, showing an elegantly clad waitress, perfectly illustrates the genteel image of the restaurants during the Roaring