Fifth Avenue Hotel, Madison Cottage Cover, New York (circa)1900

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Fifth Avenue Hotel, Madison Cottage Cover, New York (circa)1900New Yorks Fifth Avenue doesn't look like this any more. The cover of this (circa) 1900 Fifth Avenue Hotel breakfast menu shows an engraving of the early wayside stop which was known as Madison Cottage, where travelers could eat and rest. It was originally known as the Horn Farmhouse and sat at what would be the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street. It was turned into an inn by William Corporal Thompson and it was named Madison Cottage after

At that time

The façade of the Imperial Hotel

As a nod to the local ranchers and meat lovers

This 1940s beverage list of two waiters manfully carrying a giant cocktail glass is a lovely reminder of Chicago’s other Little Italy on the city’s lower west side

He's now got his own dedicated print

” according to one newspaper report

The Hollywood Brown Derby was the preferred hang out for the gossip columnists (they and the movie executives loved the innovation of tableside phones) and late nights turned into an unofficial club for Hollywood's elite

Three times with a rooty-toot-toot"

including the Showboat Restaurant located in the Empire State Building

the gaudy décor which

sours and smashes

was fleeing bankruptcy in France and had arrived in London two years earlier with his wife Célestine and her savings of just £5

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