Chopstick, Boston, 1950s Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Benito created covers for Vogue

Benito created covers for Vogue magazine for more than 15 years and he was also a successful portrait painter

Hong Far Low was one of the first Chinese restaurants in the United States

the hotel printed this 1950s menu

one of many restaurants established on the fairground

Scores of celebrities patronised the Biltmore and in 1927 the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences decided after a meeting in the hotel’s Crystal Ballroom to launch an awards ceremony called The Oscars

Chopstick, Boston, 1950s Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Benito created covers for VogueThis is the only menu we have seen with a foreword a note from the management offers to "soothe the palates of the most fastidious" with Chinese or American food. It also warns in red letters that intoxicating liquor is strictly prohibited on the premises and that people must only dance with their own escorts. This was Boston dining in the 1950s we are going to assume that the quality of the food made up for all the rules. There are great graphics on