Restaurant-ing through history

Exploring American restaurants over the centuries

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Restaurant deadbeats 23 Oct 2026
Skipping payment in a restaurant goes way back in time, but may have become a game for some patrons in more recent times. Continue reading →
Hippie restaurants 05 Oct 2026
Eating places for hippies could be found in cities across the country beginning in 1968. They mostly had a short life, but they introduced Americans to a different approach to meals that were not built around meat, emphasizing instead grains … Continue reading →
My favorite chrome postcards 14 Sep 2026
Chrome is the postcard collector’s name for cards that look like glossy color photographs but are printed on ordinary lightweight card stock. They appeared first in the 1940s and are still standard today, although often they are larger now. M … Continue reading →
My favorite photo postcards 18 Aug 2026
Photo postcards, known as “real photos” by collectors, are premium collectibles because of the details that seem clearer than on many other postcards. They, along with other types of postcards, were what led me into writing my blog. It hasn’t … Continue reading →