J Lyons Popular State Cafe, Manchester, New Year's Eve 1920

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J Lyons Popular State Cafe, Manchester, New Year's Eve 1920J. Lyons & Co. was a British restaurant chain, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate founded in 1884. In 1894 the company started a teashop in Piccadilly, London, and from 1909 developed this into a chain of teashops known as Lyons' Corner Houses. The company also ran high class restaurants, founding the Trocadero in 1895, and hotels including the Strand Palace, opened in 1909, the Regent Palace, opened in 1915, and the Cumberland Hotel, opened

are credited with developing several restaurant innovations including placing a chef making flapjacks in the window to attract the attention of hungry passers-by

This cover is by celebrated poster artist Pierre Fix-Masseau

and from 1909 developed this into a chain of teashops known as Lyons' Corner Houses

with all the rest being Irish

customers who had this souvenir menu were urged to “mail one to your Eastern or Foreign friends

All of this was ground-breaking advertising at the time

In the 1960s

meet members of the opposite sex and let loose with dance moves such as the rumba

that boasted Un Paraiso Bajo las Estrellas - a Paradise under the Stars

"Kindly Refrain from Dancing in the Dining Room unless Properly Attired"

" observed Jerry E

Virginia Ham and Smoked Turkey at $1) and the location was convenient which kept the talent near the set

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