Clifton House, Niagara Falls, 1855 Big Bands one of London's most celebrated

one of London's most celebrated restaurants

There were floor shows nightly

Buffalo Bill and sharpshooter Annie Oakley performed a Wild West Show there and other prominent visitors included European Royalty

The delightfully named Ham and Eggs Incorporated was a café on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in the 1930s when this famous street was still mainly a residential district

Clifton House, Niagara Falls, 1855 Big Bands one of London's most celebratedThis 1855 bill of fare is the oldest menu in The Culinary Institute of Americas collection and it is a beauty. Both printed and handwritten, it shows that diners in the Clifton Hotel at Niagara Falls ate and drank very well indeed. The menu is heavy on meat and the wine list is comprehensive for that era. Only rich people could afford to stay or eat here, of course. The Clifton hotel was opened in 1833 by Harmanus Monty Crysler, a New Yorker who moved