Ham & Eggs Incorporated #2, Los Angeles 1930s Sante Fe a lobster playing a funnel-trumpet

a lobster playing a funnel-trumpet and a chicken

fine art painter and educator right up until his death in 1999 at age 86

There was an episode when Billingsley's Oklahoma partners sold their shares to a man named Thomas Healy who eventually revealed that he was a "front" for three New York mobsters

was Britain's monarch from January 1901 until his death in May 1910

the railroad tycoon and founder of the New York Central Railroad System

Ham & Eggs Incorporated #2, Los Angeles 1930s Sante Fe a lobster playing a funnel-trumpetThe delightfully named Ham and Eggs Incorporated was a caf on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in the 1930s when this famous street was still mainly a residential district. As far as we know, food dishes were scrawled on a blackboard so there was no paper menu. These wonderful images come from matchbook covers that were distributed free to customers (most people smoked cigarettes back then) as a marketing tool. These images epitomizes the charm and