Cafe de Paris, Hotel Armenonville, Nice 1924

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Cafe de Paris, Hotel Armenonville, Nice 1924Born in France in 1869, Georges Redon was a painter, draftsman, caricaturist, poster artist, engraver and lithographer. Among his works were menu covers for some of Frances most famous restaurants, such as this 1924 one for the Caf De Paris at the Hotel Armenonville in Nice. Redon was particularly well known for the portraits of children and this vintage menu art shows two children perhaps a brother and sister enjoying freshly picked cherries. The

Customers could either buy direct from the company stores or have pies brought to their doors in a fleet of stylish delivery cars

This dancing coffee set is very endearing and comes from a fine old diner that closed long ago in Cynthiana

A large selection of cocktails and spirits were on offer with a Howard Johnson's Special costing 55 cents

and managed by Barney Josephson

and the charming picture on the back suggests it was for a couple celebrating a wedding or an anniversary

This elegant menu is for a dinner that was held to honor L’Ile-De France

where Les Shannon and his band played nightly

Samuel Clemens

polished his career here in cabaret

Said he was going away

the high-end restaurant employed 35 staff

this was the only Esquire branded restaurant that we know of so the concept failed