{"id":16756,"date":"2010-05-19T07:13:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T14:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=16756"},"modified":"2010-05-18T23:44:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T06:44:45","slug":"menus-vintage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/16756","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant menus, vintage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have a small collection of vintage menus. Some cards, matchbooks, other ephemera. My Joe’s<\/a> and Googie<\/a> stuff. <\/p>\n

They just don’t make em like this anymore. Beautiful utilitarian type suggesting odd specials and Braised Swiss Steak. <\/p>\n

Nothing worse than walking into a small town diner and seeing a computer-generated mess passing itself off as a menu.<\/em> Happens too much these days.<\/p>\n

Pictured, some finds from Flickr (better than what I have). More here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Best book I’ve found on the subject, Jim Heimann’s May I Take Your Order?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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