Penguin Dining Room, Hotel Continental Kansas City, MO 1940s

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Penguin Dining Room, Hotel Continental Kansas City, MO 1940sThis charming and witty illustration of a penguin orchestra is everything we love about vintage menu art. But we couldnt figure out penguins and Kansas City? The clue is that this was the front cover of the Hotel Continentals after theatre menu. People would have gone to see a show, dressed in their best, and arrived at the restaurant to see members of the orchestra in black tie otherwise known as penguin suits. There was dancing till 1am. The Hotel

This great menu art

Sliced Bananas and Strawberries with Cream Cheese Bar le Duc)

A tiny image of a mermaid opening an oyster shell taken from the Oyster Loaf’s interior menu

There is Palace Favourite

Careme was the inventor of “mother sauces” that were used in different dishes and of pastries such as mille-feuille

the Baths lost their popularity due to the Great Depression

He married his wife Helen and had a son Theodore and a daughter Connie

The Toed Inn was an example of LA’s famous programmatic or mimetic architecture – whimsical restaurants created to look like the food they served

Many thanks to the current owner Jeff for allowing us to show this menu

Absinthe was banned by 1915 but the phrase remained popular up to the 1950s as a way of describing someone who had drunk too much

There’s also a little sign that points out the location of Glendale Avenue

The Inn is now the Whiteface Club and Resort