Pixies Stealing Food 1877 Santa Anita This beautifully designed menu cover

This beautifully designed menu cover was printed by the Louis Roesch Company of San Francisco

Ladies with rosy cheeks and beefy men think only of pleasure

Dudley and operated by the United Hotels Company

Patrons sat in red leather banquettes in a wood-paneled dining room

Pixies Stealing Food 1877 Santa Anita This beautifully designed menu coverAccording to 19th century lore, pixies were benign but mischievous creatures that usually appeared at night, gathering in large numbers when people were asleep. They had slanting eyes and hair that pointed upwards and they were plump little sprites. This charming series of illustrations was found in a journal kept by a wealthy person as a souvenir of a Grand Tour of Europe. They show pixies making off with food from a dinner table. Two of them wrestle