Blue Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Read more about The Parkmoor

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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

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Blue Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Read more about The ParkmoorThe 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