Manufacturers: Unknown and Sterling China User: Lake View Village Chinese Restaurant Distributor for saucer: Albert Pick Co. Inc. – Chicago Date of examples: circa 1920s – 1930s   Notes: Lake View is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, and includes Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs.

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern name/number: Flight, underglaze DC-3600 Date of example: 1958   Notes: This is such a mid-century, atomic-style design with its winglike, pennant-like shapes and sharp angles. The pattern was located in a binder of Syracuse China patterns and clearly marked as "Flight." White-bodied china with design in

Manufacturers: Iroquois China and Syracuse China User: Omaha Athletic Club Distributor for Iroquois: G.B. Liver & Co., Omaha Date of examples: circa 1917 -1940s   Notes: Begun in 1915 and ultimately closed in 1970 and its building demolished in 1992, from the Wikipedia: "The Omaha Athletic Club was a social

Manufacturer: Grindley Hotel Ware, England User: Vegetarian Cafe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Distributor: Gibsons and Paterson, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Date of cup: circa 1920s-1932   Notes: Weekly newspaper ads for the Vegetarian Cafe began appearing in 1905 for a location on Hunter Street in Sydney, with a

Manufacturer: Sterling China User: Jerry Caperelli's Park Place Supper Club Date: 1988   Notes: Gerald Caperell opened his Jerry Caperelli's Park Place Supper Club in Fort Mohave, Arizona, in June 1988, offering complimentary limousine service, nightly "mellow sounds of Mario Surticella" and "our expertly trained staff [to pamper] your every

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Georgia Warm Springs Foundation Date of example:  1930s?   Notes: The Foundation at Warm Springs, Georgia, was an experiment in treating by hydrotherapy individuals who had been handicapped by infantile paralysis. The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation was established in 1927.  In 1934, the old Meriwether Inn was

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Walker-Gordon Date of examples: Circa 1933-1952   Notes: The Walker-Gordon process for processing raw milk with Bacillus Acidophilus cultures was developed in England. In 1897, Walker-Gordon Laboratory Co. purchased farmland in Plainsboro, New Jersey because it was close to New York City and Philadelphia. In 1929, the Borden

Manufacturer: Scammell China Distributor: Albert Pick-Barth Co. User: Vivian Johnson Tea Room, Monmouth Beach, New Jersey Date of example: 1929 -1935   Notes: Vivian Johnson was born in Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, in March 1901. Johnson opened a small tea room on River Avenue in 1923. Her tea room and grill on Ocean

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Co. Distributor: Boutell Bros. User: Cafe Vendome, 19-21 South 4th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota Date of example: Circa 1912 – 1918   Notes: The Vendome Hotel, on South 4th Street in Minneapolis, opened in 1885. The cafe entrance was on the left end of the building. In July 1912, the

Manufacturer: Scammell China, also an unknown maker User: Teibel's, Schererville, Indiana Date of examples: 1938-1954; circa 2013   Notes: In 1929, two young brothers, Martin and Steve Teibel, were running a garage in Hammond, Indiana, when two new highways were announced. These highways, 30 and 41, were going to intersect in Schererville, north

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Distributor: Prael Hegele & Co. User: Swetland's, Portland, Oregon Date of example: Circa 1909-1924   Notes: Edwin Payson Swetland was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1842. He learned the candy business from his father. In 1885, Edwin, his wife, Laura, and son Louis, moved to Portland. In 1886, he opened

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: St. Hubert Old English Grill, Chicago Date of platter: circa 1926-1930   Notes: St. Hubert was founded by an English gentleman and first named Abson's in 1877. In 1893, Charles A. Dawell, who had worked there as a busboy, along with James Gentleman and a couple of other investors,

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Montreal Canadiens Distributor: Cassidy's Ltd., Montreal, Quebec, Canada Date of examples: 1959   Notes: From Wikipedia: "The Montreal Canadiens … and colloquially known as the Habs, are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal. The Canadiens compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: The Coho, also known as The Coho Grille Date of plate: April 1982   Notes: In the early 1980s, the Rouse Company developed a festive, riverside marketplace for New Yorkers based on its previous successes: Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, and Harborplace in Baltimore. The South

Manufacturer: Mayer China User: Frontier Town, also known interchangeably as Frontier Town Inn Date of china: 1960 and 1965   Notes: What was intended to be the El Sol Garden Motel with a September 1959 opening and having reclaimed – and moved – buildings from the former Santa Lucia Inn

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Ships Cafe, Des Moines, Iowa Distributor: Jacklin Co. Des Moines, Iowa Date of platter: 1927-1930   Notes: On Sept. 2, 1925, the Ships Cafe opened in the basement of the Harris-Emery Co. department store in Des Moines. Harris-Emery merged with Yonker Brothers in 1927. In February 1927,

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern name: Park Lane #99901 Date of examples: 1950s – 1960s   Notes: Enduringly popular, Park Lane and its clean white apple blossom design was one of Syracuse's Hospitality Group patterns. It was identified in Barbara Conroy's 1999 Restaurant China Volume 2 guide, and the author mentioned

Manufacturer: McNicol China User: Boston Lying-In Hospital Distributor: Morris Gordon & Son, Inc., Boston Date of plate: circa 1921 – 1966   Notes: Originally founded in 1832, after numerous expansions, relocations and mergers, the Boston Lying in Hospital is today (2026) part of and known as the Brigham and Women's

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: White Elephant Hotel Dates of examples: Doubled handled soup bowl: 1936 Soup plate and service plate: 1963   Notes: The White Elephant Hotel is located at 50 Easton Street in Nantucket, Massachusetts.  Originally built in the early 1920s, it has been sold and remodeled numerous times. 

Manufacturer: Scammell China Distributor: Barth Equipment Co., New York City User: Ship Grill Restaurants Date of examples: circa 1928-54   Notes: Born Feb. 21, 1901, Olin Chester Potter graduated from Cornell University in 1922 and then studied interior design for two years in New York City. In 1924, Potter began organizing

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Sharf's Restaurant Pattern name: St. Marie, underglaze transfer print pattern: #6259 Date of butter pat: 1930s – 1948   Notes: No so-called smoking gun has been found to tie this butter pat directly to Sharf's Restaurant in Phoebus, Virginia – now part of the present-day city

Manufacturer: Jackson China User: Rampart Steak House Date of bowl: circa 1967 – 1968   Notes: The Rampart Steak House was located at 2031 N.E. 36th Street, Lighthouse Point, Florida. It opened in 1967 under the Shendo of America banner, an organization that already had two other steak houses in

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery User: Laughery Club  Date of examples: circa 1900 – 1911   Notes: The Laughery Club was located on the Indiana side of the Ohio River about halfway between Rising Sun and Aurora, almost opposite Laughery Island and near Laughery Creek. In actuality, the closest big city is

Manufacturer: Petrus Regout & Co., / Royal Sphinx – Maastricht, Netherlands User: d' Amstelhoek Date of plate: probably 1950s   Notes: Little is known about the Café d' Amstelhoek, a restaurant located in Amsterdam that seems to have been in business possibly from the late 19th century and, based on the

Manufacturer: Buffalo China User: Arctic Club, Seattle Distributor: J. B. & Sons, Inc., Seattle Date of creamer: 1918   Notes: The Arctic Club was formed in 1908 by successful veterans of the Klondike Gold Rush. It was a fraternal men's club, in Seattle, for businessmen with Gold Rush connections. The

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Idle Hour Country Club, Lexington, Kentucky Date of plate: 1982   Notes: According to the club's website, the Idle Hour Country Club was founded on Nov. 19, 1946 in Lexington, Kentucky, as an invitation-only club, with "clubhouse, dining facilities, golf course, tennis courts, fitness center, and

Manufacturer: Scammell China Distributor: Star Products Co., Wilkes-Barre, Penn. User: Rushin's Forest Hills Inn Date of examples: circa 1935 -1954   Notes: The earliest known advertisement for Rushin's appears in the Aug. 3, 1935, issue of the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. In a Sept. 7, article the next month, proprietor Andrew Rushin

Manufacturers: Sterling China and Hall China User: Country Kitchens Date of examples: circa 1930s – 1950s   Notes: According to an article by William Collins in the July 18, 1957, edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer, "Big Bill" Johnson came to Cincinnati, Ohio, when he was 14 after trying to join

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Preketes Bros., Ann Arbor, Michigan Date of example : circa 1941 – 1954   Notes: Paul N. Preketes arrived in Ann Arbor from his native Greece in 1904. His brother Charles joined him, and together they opened the Sugar Bowl candy store, at 111 S. Main St., in

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Pennsbury Inn, Morrisville, Penn. Date of examples: circa 1952-1954   Notes: The Pennsbury Inn was built of blue granite fieldstone in 1714 on what was then known as the Baltimore Pike (now U.S. 1). The building has survived and had many owners, and exactly when the more modern restaurant