Kitchen Orchestra, Italy 1955 Lighthouse Traditional ice cream parlors and

Traditional ice cream parlors and soda fountains were hugely popular across America during this era when drinking syrup-based sodas or eating ice-cream was a treat for both children and adults

and Today's Specials of a Bob Hope Cocktail (tomato Juice-Yoghurt with Dash of Lea and Perrins)

Born in Buenos Aires he grew up on the Isle of Skye and was much in demand from magazine publishers from the 1920s

It has now re-opened as a luxury hotel - the Hotel Café Royal

was introduced at the Lyon Exhibition of 1894 in France

Kitchen Orchestra, Italy 1955 Lighthouse Traditional ice cream parlors andThis charming kitchen orchestra is from an Italian menu cover dated 1955. It features a chef, standing on a crate of vegetables, conducting various animals to make sweet music together. He uses a ladle as a baton. Theres a goose playing a pot that doubles as a cello, a rabbit using a fork violin, a lobster playing a funnel trumpet and a chicken, sitting on a toadstool, using pot lids as cymbals and drumming on a metal casserole dish. On either side of