Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Lake Placid Club – New York Date of plate: 1944 Date of reproduction platter: 1993   Notes: From Wikipedia: "The Lake Placid Club was a social and recreation club founded 1895, in a hotel on Mirror Lake in Lake Placid, New York, under Melvil Dewey's leadership

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Top of the 100 Club – Memphis, Tennessee Date of creamer: 1963 From Abandoned Sourtheast.com "At 430 feet, the iconic One Hundred North Main office tower is the tallest building in Memphis, Tennessee. The building was completed in 1965, after two years of construction. The tower stands

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company Date of saucer: 1923   Notes: Member Michael Arnold discovered this saucer in the 1990s while diving off the Devonshire coast in England and after it had spent some 40 years in the ocean. From Wikipedia: "The Norfolk & Washington Steamboat

Manufacturer: Sterling China User: The Berghoff Restaurant – Chicago Date of platter: 1975   Notes: From Wikipedia: "The Berghoff restaurant, at 17 West Adams Street, near the center of the Chicago Loop, was opened in 1898 by Herman Joseph Berghoff and has become a Chicago landmark. In 1999, The Berghoff

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: The Alps Restaurant – New York City Date of service plate: circa 1930s – 1940s   Notes: The Alps Restaurant in New York City was located at the corner of 58th Street and Sixth Avenue. It is not known when this restaurant opened or closed; however,

Manufacturer: Bauscher Brothers – Germany User: Luehrmann's Restaurant – Memphis, Tennessee Date of pickle dish: 1908   Notes: From the Historic-Memphis website: "The Luehrmann Hotel building was a Memphis landmark on Main Street from 1888-1906.  The hotel was the upper 3 floors, with 38 rooms – reserved for men only,

Manufacturer: Buffalo China Pattern: Kingston Date of fruit bowl: 1973   Notes: The Kingston pattern is found in a 1970s catalog of holiday designs. White body vitrified china with a narrow rim that is decorated with a band of black and olive-green links that are reminiscent of a bracelet or

Manufacturer: Wood & Sons – England User: Bigwin Inn – Lake of Bays, Muskoka, Canada Distributor: Cassidy's Limited Date of platters: circa 1920s   Notes: From Wikipedia: "Bigwin Island is an island in the municipality of Lake of Bays, District Municipality of Muskoka in Central Ontario, Canada. It the largest

Manufacturer: Jackson China User: Thames Coffee Shoppe – New York City Date of bouillon cup: circa 1965 – 1973   Notes: Thames Coffee Shoppe was located at 10 East 44th Street in New York City (between Madison and Fifth). When this establishment actually opened and closed is not known other