Blue Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Houston muted colours

muted colours

Sherman Billingsley was a former bootlegger from Oklahoma who created what was arguably the most famous restaurant and nightclub in the world – the Stork Club in New York

An orchestra played in the afternoons and evenings

Parker House was founded by Harvey D Parker in 1855 in Boston and if its walls could talk

the Wayvil

Blue Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Houston muted coloursThe 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