Café Society Uptown Rear Cover, New York 1940s Station This promotional brochure for the

This promotional brochure for the Cabin Grill in New York City dates to about 1935 and is a nostalgic look back at the naughty days of Prohibition

Number 17 Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III (renamed Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945) was a run-down bistro until René Lasserre took it over and

While one drives the fire engine

the haunting protest song about black lynchings in the South

He encouraged customers to take away the menus – they travelled far across America and the world and helped spread the word about the lobster-centric menu so that anyone who visited the shore

Café Society Uptown Rear Cover, New York 1940s Station This promotional brochure for theCaf Society was a New York City nightclub open from 1938 to 1948 at Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village, and managed by Barney Josephson. Josephson created the club to showcase African American talent and to be an American version of the political cabarets he had seen in Europe earlier. As well as running the first racially integrated night club in the United States, Josephson also intended the club to defy the pretensions of the rich; he chose the