Howard Johnson's Liquors, USA 1950s Seafood Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

The menu is written in what seems to be a Chinook dialect but there is a joke at the end of the menu

which still flourishes and which has three Michelin stars

From 1933 until her end in 1935

Howard Johnson's Liquors, USA 1950s Seafood Ella FitzgeraldThis is a wonderful drinks menu from Howard Johnson's, once the biggest restaurant chain in the United States. The design and graphics are strikingly simple and elegant a perfect example of the ingenuity of vintage menu artists. Ho Jos, as it was called by customers, began life as a pharmacy and soda fountain in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1925. Businessman Howard Johnson, who had borrowed $2,000 to open the property, realized customers were queuing up