Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery
Name of user: Arcadia Restaurant – Philadelphia, Penn.
Date of platter: circa 1915-1924

Shard from a Maddock dump site used between 1912 and 1921

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Notes: The Arcadia Restaurant – also called Arcadia Cafe – opened on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1915. It was located in the basement and sub-basement of the new Widener Building on Chestnut Street, near Broad Street in Philadelphia. One entrance was from the sidewalk on Chestnut Street, and two more from an arcade that ran through the ground floor.

Fritz Pflug, a director of the Arcadia Café Company, was manager of the Arcade Restaurant operation. The main dining room seated 500. The Grill accommodated 400, and there were eight private dining rooms that held up to 50. There was a bar between the restaurant and the grill.

In 1934, the restaurant was remodeled and reopened as Arcadia, The International Restaurant with a menu of cuisine from all parts of the world. By 1940, the Arcadia was part of the Kugler Restaurant operation.

Maddock produced a Lamberton China service that is crested with a circle of laurel leaves around a panel containing the word ARCADIA. This is the logo that appears on the announcement for the restaurant opening.

Flanking the crest is a band of white laurel leaves on a black background. Red pin lines outline the border, which is located mid-rim, flanking the crest. The backstamp, Lamberton China, does not mention Maddock.

A fragment of this crest and border was found in a Maddock dump site used between 1912 and 1921.

Sources:
John W. Cahill, exterior view of Widener Building
Old Images of Philadelphia – Facebook

For more info:
Arcadia Restaurant 2, by Maddock Pottery

Contributors:
Larry Paul, author
Robert Young, compote detail