Esquire Restaurant For Men, Penn-Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, PA 1930s Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) He didn't know but he'd

He didn't know but he'd heard it was going to be a parking lot

there were carved dragons on the walls and people sat on stools at tables inlaid with mother of pearl

While generations of American children remember being taken out to eat at Ho Jos

This charming rebus puzzle  was created by a Stella Gilbert of Council Bluffs Iowa in 1909

many people carried hip flasks of illegal hooch

Esquire Restaurant For Men, Penn-Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, PA 1930s Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) He didn't know but he'dIt seems a laughably outdated idea now, but restaurateurs and bar owners experimented with men only establishments in the 1930s as a way of picking up business after Prohibition ended. The Esquire Grill in the Penn Harris Hotel in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was one of the best known of these all male establishments. In the early part of the 20th century, women did not patronize restaurants on a daily basis and so the food on offer in restaurants and