St Catherine Hotel Cocktails, Catalina Island, California, 1941 Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The restaurant was open 24

The restaurant was open 24 hours and had a house orchestra which played daily to liven things up

The rather grand lunch was held at the historic Château de Francs

This charming little chap appears on the interior of San Francisco's The Oyster Loaf menu from the 1940s

The dandified ostrich and the monkey waiter being nipped by a lobster were part of Vimar’s contribution to the fashion at that time for fantastical art images – later this style of artwork became known as magical realism

Meridian Day celebrates the day on which a ship in the Pacific crosses the International Date Line

St Catherine Hotel Cocktails, Catalina Island, California, 1941 Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The restaurant was open 24This is one of a series of menus created by Dorothy and Otis Shep Shepard, the masterminds behind Wrigley chewing gums branding. The couple worked on a lot of branding material for Catalina Island when owner P. K. Wrigley worked to develop it as a tourist destination. The St Catherine Hotel in Avalon dates from 1918, when the Bannings built it on the site of their former family home, destroyed by fire in 1915. The hotel had a private beach, a 1,200