Dinner in Honor of the Apollo 11 Astronauts, Los Angeles 1969

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Dinner in Honor of the Apollo 11 Astronauts, Los Angeles 1969On August 13, less than a month after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the historic first landing on the moon in 1969, they and fellow astronaut Michael Collins were guests at this dinner given in their honor in Los Angeles. The trio was on a triumphant tour of the United States and had already been feted by hundreds of thousands of people in tickertape parades. The main speaker at this official White House dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel was

The Wonton section features "Yat gaw mein" soup

Lindemann provided many of the recipes for the traditional Jewish menu items

With its banquet hall

sitting in a corner and reading newspapers

Rhode Island – hence this wonderful 1930s menu cover depicting a nattily-dressed stork

motoring and engaging in fun-filled activities

Café Martin was one of New York's grandest restaurants and would have been the perfect place in 1904 to celebrate the booming automobile business

A really joyful example of vintage menu art

It shows a sailor astride a friendly whale while two little fish dance around on the air expelled by the mammal’s blowhole

Toklas Cookbook

The prices suggest that it's from the 1940s but the menu cover seems much more modern

It operated from 1932 until 1960 in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago