Ham n Egg Corner, New York 1950s Henry Voigt Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Customers were apparently confused about whether to sit down at a table and wait for service or to go to a food counter and help themselves

No doubt using the expertise he gained when he was a bootlegger in his home state and when first opened the Stork Club as a speakeasy in the roaring Twenties when Prohibition was still in force

Both became wildly popular comic strip characters

only three members of the kitchen – out of 22 in total – were foreign

Ham n Egg Corner, New York 1950s Henry Voigt Henri de Toulouse-LautrecThis visual feast of a menu is from the Ham n Egg Corner, a restaurant in the 1950s that served customers on Broadway and 51st street in New York and is now closed. There was another outpost in Hollywood, California, on Vine Street. Inventive, charming and clever, its everything we love about vintage menu art. The graphics feature cute pigs(including one with wings, so pigs really do fly) and busy and efficient chickens, clucking their way to the