Wheeler's The Ivy, London, 1950s Lunch Tri Boro Bridge and the

Tri Boro Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge)  and the recently completed La Guardia Airport that the Hotel New Yorker produced as menu covers in 1941

says this wonderful restaurant advertising card from Paris in 1921

Diners entered from Shaftesbury Avenue

A lovely handwritten menu from London's celebrated Claridge's Hotel in Mayfair

Wheeler's The Ivy, London, 1950s Lunch Tri Boro Bridge and theThe Ivy, one of London's most celebrated restaurants, began life in 1916 as an unlicensed caf selling food but soon got a dash of glamour when owner Abel Glandellini joined forces with maitre d'Hotel Mario Gallati. It quickly became a favorite of the theatre crowd, attracting Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Dame Nellie Melba among others. The Ivy's fortunes waxed and waned but its boom years came around again in the 1990s when Hollywood stars