Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The stately building was hailed

The stately building was hailed as York’s “newest and most up-to-date hotel

referring to Bucky Bleichert

but lunch was 3 shillings and less expensive dinners could be obtained for 5 shillings and 7s

Like all Chinese American night clubs in mid-20th century

Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The stately building was hailedThe 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