Golden Derrick, San Antonio, Texas 1960s

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Golden Derrick, San Antonio, Texas 1960sWas this the place to go and celebrate when you struck oil in San Antonio, Texas? This is a simply drawn but strikingly effective menu cover. There is the tower, which contains the machinery for turning the drilling bit around in the hole, and a little prospector's cabin. Since the Golden Derrick restaurant was at the Petroleum Center, we expect this is a bit romanticized but it's fun to think of newly minted oil millionaires coming here and, judging

He was a smuggler who heroically fought for the United States against Great Britain in defense of New Orleans in the War of 1812

This is one of the lovely things about vintage menus – they were kept to mark a first date or other important occasion - and that's why we can enjoy the amazing graphics and illustrations today

Queen Mary was the flagship of the Cunard Line from May 1936 until October 1946 when she was replaced in that role by Queen Elizabeth

With the outbreak of the Second World War

the lounge or the main room where there’s music for cocktail dancing – followed by music to eat to

This colorful menu cover dated circa 1906 represents a truly ethnic

Courtesy Henry Voigt

From the Boston Transcript

Freshly prepared gourmet meals were served by uniformed waiters and champagne

These included in 1914 Charles H

Not long ago a man died in his chair and no one knew he was dead for a long time

introducing electric lights throughout the building

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