Esquire Restaurant For Men, Penn-Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, PA 1930s American Bar matchbooks

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This 1926 menu for a goodbye dinner aboard the SS America is certainly impressive – note that the officers could finish off their meals “in the smoking room or the library

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Esquire Restaurant For Men, Penn-Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, PA 1930s American Bar matchbooksIt seems a laughably outdated idea now, but restaurateurs and bar owners experimented with men only establishments in the 1930s as a way of picking up business after Prohibition ended.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