Cunard White Star Music Menu #2 , Alistair K MacDonald, 1930s Grand Central The Brass Rail covered an

The Brass Rail covered an entire city block in midtown Manhattan and spanned five floors

Winn's Fountain Head was a temperance restaurant at 78 & 80 Commercial Street

Self-service took a while to catch on

She was asked to leave in 1923 and died the following year

Cunard White Star Music Menu #2 , Alistair K MacDonald, 1930s Grand Central The Brass Rail covered anThis glorious menu art is by Alistair K MacDonald (1880 1948). He was a prolific Scottish artist whose charming and detailed works appeared regularly in British and American periodicals in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Buenos Aires he grew up on the Isle of Skye and was much in demand from magazine publishers from the 1920s. He was also a successful book illustrator. MacDonald designed the cocktail and dinner menus for the Cunard White