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

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Notes: Lake View is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, and includes Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. Circa the 1920s, Harry Chan Chin Wai operated the Lake View Village Chinese Restaurant at 3817 North Broadway in Chicago, Illinois. An advertisement from 1922 (shown above), states: "one block north of Marigold Garden, which was a famous entertainment complex and beer garden on Chicago's North Side in the Lake View neighborhood.

In 1926, according to an article in the Chicago Tribue (shown above), Wai decided to open a second restaurant on the second floor of 4820 Broadway near the Uptown theater. The article says that it will be "an elaborate Oriental eating place, to be known as the Uptown Chinese Village restaurant."

The Chicago Tribune published a short article on July 22, 1928, (shown above), about Wai (Harry Chan) installing "an elaborate cooling system to make dancing a pleasure at the Uptown Village even on the warmest evenings." The same article states: "Harry Chan (Wai), who has an established reputation for the excellence of his Chinese dishes at the Uptown Village as well as the Lakeview Village."

The last mention found for both restaurants was a brief article in the Chicago Tribune dated Sept. 18, 1932, about orchestras appearing in cabarets in Chicago. It states: "This cabaret is managed in cooperation with the Lake View Village and the Uptown Village, other popular dance cafes on the north side."

White body saucer with a light blue band covering the rim and all but the center of the well. There is a brownish red pinstripe circle at the well's center leaving the white body exposed. At the top of the saucer are the words "LakeView Village" in black block letters resembling bamboo. Between the two words is a black ornate circular drawing with two doors at the center. This drawing also appeared in an ad, shown above.

Sources:
Chicago Tribune, Sept. 4, 1926 – story about opening a second restaurant
Chicago Tribune, July 22, 1928 – story about new cooling system in Uptown Village

Contributors:
Charles H. Sovine: ID and sample plate photos
Ed Babcock: saucer photos
Ed Phillips: author