Hotel New Yorker "Arms", New York, 1942 Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Legend has it that Metro

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

at least for a long time

the hotel guest who took this menu as a souvenir in 1924 was probably a wealthy person on a Grand Tour of Europe

Buckingham Palace was also hit on the same night

From 1940s Chicago

Hotel New Yorker "Arms", New York, 1942 Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Legend has it that MetroCompleted in 1929, the Hotel New Yorker boasted 2,500 rooms within its 43 stories and was, in that era, the tallest and most mechanized hotel in the world. It also had its own print shop that produced classic menus like this four part series from 1942, the year after the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought America into the Second World War. In striking colors, these menu covers proudly declared that America "rallies its resources in times of need."