Category Archives: Menus
“Meet Me at the Double R Coffee House”
Coffee’s big in the “city that never sleeps”. And it’s not a new thing either: a great little snapshot of this love affair has popped up in the form of a menu and an advertisement for the Double R Coffee House. Sure, you’ve never heard of it but the venture’s partners were none other than [...]
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Tagged A.M. Salazar, Alcohol, aneta magdich, archie, Brazilian Coffee House, city that never sleeps, coffee, Double R Coffee House, kermit, Monroe Douglas Robinson, mr. laredo, new york sun, philip roosevelt, Prohibition, rio du duvida, rio roosevelt, river of doubt, south america, stock market crash, theater district, Theodore Roosevelt, theodore roosevelt jr., zivko magdich
The Promise and Loss of the Hindenburg
Post written by Mariam Touba This spring we have heard much that commemorates the disaster that befell the ocean liner Titanic, but it is not the only mournful anniversary of the destruction of a beautiful, efficient and luxurious way to cross the Atlantic. Seventy-five years ago, on May 6, 1937, the airship Hindenburg caught fire [...]
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Tagged eckener, germany, helium, herb morrison, hindenburg, hitler, hydrogen, lakehurst, menu, nazis, new jersey, new york, rigid airship, titanic, waldorf-astoria, zeppelin
