Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Morrison Hotel's Terrace Garden Restaurant Date of soup plate: circa 1920s-1930s   Notes: Located in Chicago, Ill., at Madison and Clark streets, the Morrison Hotel was home to the Terrace Garden restaurant. In addition to fine dining and dancing, the dance floor could be turned into

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Morning Call Date of cup: 1940   Notes: From the Morning Call website, the Morning Call Coffee Stand in New Orleans, the "most famous coffee drinking place, has been serving café au lait and beignets to generations of locals and visitors since 1870. Founded by Joseph

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Monticello Date of ashtray: circa 1934-1952   Notes: Advertising ashtray for Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, located outside Charlottesville, Virginia. Contributors: Bill Montgomery: ashtray photo Susan and Ed Phillips: postcards

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Model Laundry – Zoric Garment Cleaning System Date of ashtray: 1936   Notes: Model Laundry advertising ashtray – location in Uniontown, Penn. – highlighting itself as "the home of the marvelous Zoric Garment Cleaning System." The so-named dry cleaning system was copyrighted in 1931 and

Manufacture: Carr China Company User: Model Laundry Date of ashtray: circa 1934-1952   Notes: Model Laundry advertising ashtray – location in Uniontown, Penn. On a side note, this is the clearest image we can remember seeing of the Glo-Tan backstamp. Contributors: Susan and Ed Phillips

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Minnetonka Hotel Date of bowl: 1938   Notes: This fruit bowl came from the estate of a friend of ours in Maine – now deceased – who had a special interest in collecting restaurant china from New England hotels, in particular New Hampshire and Maine. Even

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Meadowlands Country Club Date of plate: 1951   Notes: Meadowlands Country Club was founded in 1949 as a Jewish country club in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. It was sold in 2016 and is now Bluestone Country Club. Website: https://www.bluestonecc.com White body plate with three green pinstripes

Manufacturers: Carr China Company and Walker China User: Mayer's Parkway Restaurant Date of cup & saucer: circa 1934-1980   Notes: Mayer's was a popular German-influenced roadhoase in the Bronx, N.Y., open from 1902 to 1980. It's interesting to see the difference in clay body colors between the saucer, which is Glo-Tan, and

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Masonry – Freemasonry Date of bowl: 1938   Notes: The topmark on this bowl, made in 1938, is the Masonic Square and Compasses – architects' tools – that can be found both with and without the central G. Freemasonry or Masonry are fraternal organizations that trace