Posted 4 years ago
raven3766
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I love finding interesting things. Recently, I purchased Longchamps Restaurant matches. They came in a plastic wrap, so I didn’t bother looking at them. Today, two weeks later, I decided to look. I pulled them out of the wrapping and someone wrote inside the matchbook. To see May 21,1937, knowing that someone was having dinner possibly with the Mayor of New York. If you close your eyes, you could envision the Art Deco designs, waiters taking orders, people talking and clinking glasses. I couldn’t make out the other names, but maybe someone could assist. It would've been great to know who wrote this info on the matchbook. * Look at the chef faces at the tip of the matches.
I love the graphics on old paper stuff
You’re right cool Chef Heads
Dinner from $o.75 cents ,
I’ll take two
Vynil, I bet the serving size was huge!
Thanks for the love, Dav, and Anything.
raven3766, Cool. :-)
https://www.drivingfordeco.com/new-york-art-deco-longchamps/
http://lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/2007/05/meet-you-at-longchamps.html
The writing on the matchbook looks like maybe:
Out to dinner
Fri May 21-1937
with L Muller
A Smith
M Sheridan (this one looks like the writer made a mistake at the end of the name)
& G.L.T.
Went to Harry's house.
Keramikos, I looked up A Smith and he was the Governor of New York and Harry's house, I believe is another restaurant. Thank you for the blog, I will post the matchbook.
Keramikos, I just found another A. Smith. He was the President of the Empire State building.
The same Al Smith was governor of New York State and later president of the company that built the Empire State Building. The Longchamps chain signed a lease for a location in the ESB in December 1937, and it opened the following year. There’s a GLT Bauhan listed in the City Record for NYC in 1937 as a legal dept. employee, and a Mrs. GLT Bauhan was Senior Statistician for NY State in 1938. If those matches could talk...
Thank you MMNJ! My goodness if matches could talk!