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First Class Dining Section on the Titanic, 1912 |
BUT NOT FORGOTTEN—The restaurants aka food service in this blog are very much part of
history. They’re gone. This isn’t an obit, but rather a Retro Files
remembrance to when these eateries were in their prime and very much part of
the human experience.
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Dining room aboard the German airship Hindenburg, April 1936 |
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Dinner aboard the Concorde, 1970s |
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Windows on the World Restaurant, Manhattan, 1990s |
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Astrodome Club, Houston, Texas 1970s |
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Elipsos TrenHotel between Barcelona and Paris service ended 2013. |
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Cliff House Restaurant, Circa 1900, San Francisco CA |
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Dining Room aboard the Hindenburg with observation windows on the left, Circa 1936 |
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First class dining saloon aboard the Lusitania, sunk May 7, 1915 by a German submarine |
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Dining cabin aboard the Boeing 314 flying boat, which saw service as the Pan Am Clipper, which carried 74 passengers and had a 3,400 mile range. Image circa 1939. |
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1929 image of dining room aboard the German Graf Zeppelin on its around the world cruise |
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First class dining room aboard the cruise ship Normandy, a magnificent
example of art deco in its prime. Circa
1936.
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Grand dining room of the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, circa 1923 |
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Outdoor mess hall American Civil War, Union troops, Circa 1864 |
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North Beach's (San Francisco) famed media bar, circa 1980
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