Chopstick, Boston, 1950s Little Italy matchbooks and ashtrays

matchbooks and ashtrays

Said he was going away

" This beautiful menu from 1943 paints a telling story of life during World War 2

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Chopstick, Boston, 1950s Little Italy matchbooks and ashtraysThis 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