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Hotel Governor Clinton, New York, 1933This magnificent Art Deco vintage menu cover was created in December 1933 for the first New Year festivities celebrating the end of Prohibition. Just 27 days previously, on December 5 at 5. 31pm, the 21st Amendment had been ratified, announced by President Franklin D Roosevelt. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment of January 16, 1919, lifting the unpopular nationwide sale of alcohol. No wonder this menu cover features a large bottle of

the Hedge Hopper and the Captain De Luxe written on clouds and there is an aerial banner at the top flown by a propeller plane

extolling the virtues of manpower

This upmarket nightclub

boasts this Bill of Fare from the SS California and dated 1881

weather vanes and fiberglass Simple Simon and the Pieman logos - in the 1970s

we think this is probably from the late 1930s

to quicken with new life

It was a brand of the Lowry Coffee Company

Some information courtesy of Delaware Historical Society

he was soon nicknamed ‘Sticky’ Wilson because of his sweet tooth and diligent work ethic

who born in Uruguay in 1876 and who moved to the United States when he was a child

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed here