Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s 1875 A popular destination was the

A popular destination was the one noted on this 1908 menu –the village of Old Kasaan

The gentleman in red is wearing hunting attire

in the 1930s

Riding on a successful trend

Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s 1875 A popular destination was theThe Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858. They take the form of a one sided dialogue between the author and other residents of a New England Boarding House. This lovely literary nod by the 2,500 room Hotel New Yorker for its breakfast menu shows that the management knew their clientele very well indeed. The 1940s and 1950s saw