Blue Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The Stork Club was a

The Stork Club was a famous and fabled nightclub in New York City from 1929 to 1965 that was owned and operated by Sherman Billingsley (1896–1966)

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Customers were apparently confused about whether to sit down at a table and wait for service or to go to a food counter and help themselves

Domestic use of electricity was still limited at this time – only the wealthy had electricity in their homes

Blue Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The Stork Club was aThe Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858. They take the form of a one sided dialogue between the author and other residents of a New England Boarding House. This lovely literary nod by the 2,500 room Hotel New Yorker for its breakfast menu shows that the management knew their clientele very well indeed. The 1940s and 1950s saw