Schrafft's, New York 1939 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) we think this image was

we think this image was from the 1960s

a nine-course meal at the Trocadero cost half a guinea

returns to the peak of fashion

Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey played there and the New York Observer noted that in the building's heyday

and emblazoned all the ones that passed her quality test with a distinctive blue oval stamp

Schrafft's, New York 1939 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) we think this image wasSchraffts began life as a candy manufacturer in Boston and in 1898 one its salesmen, a visionary man called Frank G Shattuck, opened the first store in New York. His sister Jane introduced the concept of light lunches and Schraffts developed into a chain of restaurants that was particularly popular with women. In an interview with the New York Times in 2004, Mr Shattucks great grandson Frank said of the restaurants refined clientele: Everyone wore