Ham n Egg Corner, New York 1950s Henry Voigt When Hostellerie du Coq Hardi

When Hostellerie du Coq Hardi closed only a few years ago

Both became wildly popular comic strip characters

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

spaghetti Caruso named in honor of the famous Italian tenor for $1

Legend has it that Metro Goldwyn Meyer’s famous set designer Cedric Gibbons sketched the design of the Oscar statuette on one of the hotel’s napkins

Ham n Egg Corner, New York 1950s Henry Voigt When Hostellerie du Coq HardiThis 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