Le Paquebot Portugal 1903 (Hippo) Menu Art by Auguste Vimar Hotel Savoy It carried mail between the

It carried mail between the two countries – sometimes called Pacquebot mail – as well as passengers and cargo

restaurant and after-theatre supper club in Tin Pan Alley

Under Besson the hotel’s board of directors included veterans of the Ritz and the Savoy among other storied venues

but restaurateurs and bar owners experimented with men only establishments in the 1930s as a way of picking up business after Prohibition ended

We were intrigued by the meal-times written out as A

Le Paquebot Portugal 1903 (Hippo) Menu Art by Auguste Vimar Hotel Savoy It carried mail between theLe Paquebot Portugal (S. S. Portugal) was originally built in 1886 for the Brazil and River Plate Line of the Messageries Maritimes Company. She was chartered or purchased by the Russians for use as a hospital ship in the Black Sea during the first world war. On March 30 1916 she was sunk by a torpedo from the German U boat U 33. This 1903 menu image of a hippo server delivering a bowl was created by the French illustrator and watercolor artist