Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s 1875 ” these orange roofed Howard

” these orange roofed Howard Johnson’s restaurants stretched from Maine to New York

in the 1930s

creole spaghetti with sliced frankfurters

comprising the Mohawk

Riding on a successful trend

Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s 1875 ” these orange roofed HowardThe Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858. They take the form of a one sided dialogue between the author and other residents of a New England Boarding House. This lovely literary nod by the 2,500 room Hotel New Yorker for its breakfast menu shows that the management knew their clientele very well indeed. The 1940s and 1950s saw