Loving Spirits, Cocktail Story 1950s Napkin Print

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Loving Spirits, Cocktail Story 1950s Napkin PrintWhats in a cocktail? Spirits, of course. These charming images were printed on cocktail napkins made by Leacock & Co Inc, a company whose history on the island of Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean goes back to 1760. The company established offices in New York in 1924 and sold embroidered table linens and accessories to department stores and specialty stores throughout the US. During the Depression, lasting from 1929 to 1939, sales manager and president

As many servicemen and women flocked to the city for precious days of leave

Information courtesy of Craig Benepe

If you look carefully at the image you can see that the vast majority of the people are in uniforms

Humorous and non-patronizing

The fact that celebrities such as actress Dorothy Lamour and comedian Bob Hope ate there

This marked a move towards haute cuisine

The soup is often served with condiments like soy sauce

They wanted an end to the Vietnam War and they were angry about the lack of progress on civil rights

The SS Siboney plied the New York-Cuba-Mexico route in the 1920s for its owners

Nassau was originally built in 1923 for P & O and launched as the Mongolia

Strauss and Wagner as guests dined

the remote location of the settlement proved difficult to manage