Cunard White Star Music Menu #2 , Alistair K MacDonald, 1930s Grand Central Dressed as a waiter

Dressed as a waiter

Self-service took a while to catch on

with Republicans staying in one wing of the hotel and Democrats staying in the other

The Brass Rail covered an entire city block in midtown Manhattan and spanned five floors

Winn's Fountain Head was a temperance restaurant at 78 & 80 Commercial Street

Cunard White Star Music Menu #2 , Alistair K MacDonald, 1930s Grand Central Dressed as a waiterThis glorious menu art is by Alistair K MacDonald (1880 1948). He was a prolific Scottish artist whose charming and detailed works appeared regularly in British and American periodicals in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Buenos Aires he grew up on the Isle of Skye and was much in demand from magazine publishers from the 1920s. He was also a successful book illustrator. MacDonald designed the cocktail and dinner menus for the Cunard White