Martin Bros. Breakfast Menu, New Orleans, 1940s El Paso This charming late 1950s menu

This charming late 1950s menu features a dapper pair of owls

If you look carefully at the image you can see that the vast majority of the people are in uniforms

now occupies the space that was once the splendid Hotel Continental

By the early 1970s the hotel was abandoned and severely run down

This 1930s image might have been used in the interior of a menu

Martin Bros. Breakfast Menu, New Orleans, 1940s El Paso This charming late 1950s menuBennie and Clovis Martin were ex streetcar conductors who opened a hole in the wall coffee stand in New Orleans' French Quarter in 1922. According to many accounts, it was the Martin brothers who created the world famous po' boy sandwich (originally known as a "poor boy" sandwich) to support striking streetcar drivers and conductors in 1929. As part of their pledge, they gave sandwiches to the strikers. Bennie Martin was quoted as saying "We fed those