Bunny's Waffle Houses operated in San Francisco and Reno from 1931-1968
Fred Harvey immigrated to the US at the age of 17 and worked his way up from being a pot-scrubber in a restaurant in New York to starting the country’s first restaurant chain called Harvey Houses
which were a major British institution well into the second half of the Twentieth Century
it became a magnet for "slummers" – American tourists looking to do something exotic in the evenings
was fleeing bankruptcy in France and had arrived in London two years earlier with his wife Célestine and her savings of just £5
Burlington Zephyr, 1943 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Bunny's Waffle Houses operated inThe Burlington Zephyr named for Zephyrus, the god of the west wind and a symbol of rebirth revolutionised train travel in America in the 1930s. This stylish menu cover showing the stainless steel speedster in all its glory was used in the dining car. The brainchild of Ralph Budd, president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Edward Budd, an automobile industry designer from Philadelphia, the Burlington Zephyr was an instant hit as soon