The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub located in Harlem on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1935, then briefly in the midtown Theater District from 1936 to 1940. The club operated most notably during the United States’ era of Prohibition. (Wikipedia)
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Tag: Food
I Must Have OREO… 1912
Hangman’s Tree, 1945
Hangman’s Tree… the place to take your family for lousy food and warm beer…
Onions have feeling too…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Rita Hayworth looking for the perfect turkey for Thanksgiving, 1939.
War Chest Cookery Book, 1917
The War Chest Cookery Book, published in 1917 for the Australian Comforts Fund. The foreword to the book states that all profits from the sale of the book would benefit the “fighting men who have gone out in defense of their country”.
Cheese Please, 1935
Cheese Shop, Manhattan, 1935
Roadside Diners – 1930s
Spaghetti, 25 cents
Sanka Coffee, 1948
