Hotel New Yorker Collection New York, 1942 Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) -2/3 Dry Gin

-2/3 Dry Gin

dating from the 1960s

The Oyster Loaf restaurant kept up the tradition

Supper was very expensive

Hotel New Yorker Collection New York, 1942 Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) -2/3 Dry GinA specially designed print featuring all four of the Hotel New Yorker's patriotic World War II V for Victory menu covers. Completed 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. The April 1930 edition of Popular Science magazine described the following scene during a sneak preview: "Through an open door we saw busy chefs cooking on the kitchen's thirty