Gruber, Paris 1889 George Pullman This 1940s menu from the

This 1940s menu from the hotel’s Canary Room restaurant shows a cowboy-booted chef lassoeing canaries

Eventually the rail line expanded past Allentown to Buffalo

a businessman who was not just a great restaurateur but a genius at marketing

The delicate menu cover is lovely and has an art nouveau ring to it but it is the interior of this 1919 menu that fascinates

After several changes of management it closed in 1972

Gruber, Paris 1889 George Pullman This 1940s menu from theHungry visitors who attended the World Fair in Paris in 1889 would have been presented with this lovely menu when they dined at the Brasserie Franaise, one of many restaurants established on the fairground. The restaurant was originally opened in 1816 in Melun by Walter Cyriaque and was bought by Brasserie Gruber & Cie de Strasbourg Knigshoffen in 1888, a year before the fair opened. The Eiffel Tower was erected as the entrance arch to the 1889 World