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Blue in a Red State

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Fri Apr-01-05 12:54 AM
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Old menus

I adore looking at historical menus and recently found that the NYPL put a large number of digital images from their Buttolph collection online. Fascinating stuff.

A sample from 1851:

The online collection:
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgtitle_tree.cfm?level=1&title_id=268324

Nice database of menus at LAPL, too, with more contemporary examples: http://dbase1.lapl.org/pages/menus.htm

:popcorn:

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LiberalVoice

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Fri Apr-01-05 12:56 AM
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1. Not much of a selection.

:shrug:

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Blue in a Red State

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Fri Apr-01-05 01:04 AM
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3. Did you try clicking on a date?

The link worked in my browser. :shrug: And you can look at, say, ship menus by searching on U.S.S. (for example) there at the bottom.

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Elidor

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Fri Apr-01-05 01:07 AM
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4. I think LV meant the menu in your post didn't offer much

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Blue in a Red State

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Fri Apr-01-05 01:14 AM
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6. Oh.

Never mind...

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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf

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Fri Apr-01-05 01:00 AM
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2. A lot of these are...

"Meat, with a side of Meat"

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Blue in a Red State

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Fri Apr-01-05 01:27 AM
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7. I think the emphasis was on quantity back then

And if you look at some of those meats, you'll occasionally find things like "prairie chickens" (endangered today) or "pigeons" (more than likely the extinct Passenger Pigeons on those earliest menus)...

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flamingyouth

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Fri Apr-01-05 01:10 AM
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5. That's a really cool site

I love looking at things like this. I have a few menus from old, closed Hollywood restaurants in my collection. :)

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Blue in a Red State

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Fri Apr-01-05 01:29 AM
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8. Post some scans sometime!

I'd love to see them!

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lpbk2713

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Fri Apr-01-05 01:38 AM
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9. That's very interesting. Thanks for the links.

I found that one could get a lobster dinner for less than $2 in Boston in the 1940's.

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Blue in a Red State

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Fri Apr-01-05 01:59 AM
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10. The LAPL menus are really interesting

I get a real kick out the 70's menus. The "diet" plates back then were exactly what the Atkins fad preaches...

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