landing in Derrygimlagh bog on 15 June 1919 - to EI-ABI
barber shops and shoeshine stalls in a strip mall downtown
We are sure the customers were in on the joke
It soon became popular with Tammany Hall politicians and sporting figures
The Pink Pig in what was then Van Nuys - now
Howard Johnson's Liquors, USA 1950s Howard Johnson landing in Derrygimlagh bog onThis is a wonderful drinks menu from Howard Johnson's, once the biggest restaurant chain in the United States. The design and graphics are strikingly simple and elegant a perfect example of the ingenuity of vintage menu artists. Ho Jos, as it was called by customers, began life as a pharmacy and soda fountain in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1925. Businessman Howard Johnson, who had borrowed $2,000 to open the property, realized customers were queuing up