The Blackstone, Chicago 1916 CHICAGO John Garfield and Gary Cooper

John Garfield and Gary Cooper

J Lyons and Co was a restaurant and food manufacturing conglomerate whose main commercial outlets were teashops

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Sherman Billingsley was a former bootlegger from Oklahoma who created what was arguably the most famous restaurant and nightclub in the world – the Stork Club in New York

The Blackstone, Chicago 1916 CHICAGO John Garfield and Gary CooperWomen were protesting for the right to vote on the streets of Chicago when this 1916 menu was offered to patrons of the restaurant in the Blackstone Hotel, a Windy City landmark. During this era in the United States, hotel restaurants were considered fashionable and exclusive places for the wealthy and powerful to eat and were often designed, as writer Theodore Dreiser noted dryly, with many fake European touches. As you can see from the enormous food