Florentine Room, Addison Hotel, Detroit 1930s Annual Ball with the tea shops following

with the tea shops following soon after

These initiatives were requested by the United States Food Administration

In the early 20th century

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For a short period in the 1960s the Thatched Barn - a landmark hotel on the outskirts of London - became a very short-lived Playboy Club

Florentine Room, Addison Hotel, Detroit 1930s Annual Ball with the tea shops followingFlorentine Room: A glamorous female minstrel serenades the moon in this whimsical 1930s menu cover from the Addison Hotel, Detroit. The menu would have been very recently post Prohibition since it offers beers as well as many ginger ales, waters and sparkling grape juices. The hotel was completed in 1905 under the direction of architect Albert Kahn, a German immigrant who pioneered a new type of construction that used reinforced concrete in buildings