re: Pictures from days gone by....

Der Weinerschnitzel.

I was a frequent patron of the DW on Highland when I was at LSU. Loved the chili cheese dog and the shakes were pretty good too.

The Eiffel Tower just got a bit longer. If the look on her face is any indication, she must have been one helluva lay. Please don’t spoil it for me if any of you older baws have first hand experience to the contrary.

Fat Men's Club of NY (1904) members had to weight at least 200lbs, pay $1 fee, and learn a secret handshake and password.

The first fat men’s club to form was the Fat Men’s Association of New York City in 1869. Acceptance into the organization represented status and pride for the participants and the concept grew tremendously in the years to follow

1957, NO City Park

And nearby a lawyer salivates.

You don't have to get all dressed up, but they did anyway.

The Dan Lohr Ranch in Nebraska, 1888

1920s



LINK [LIST_EMAIL_ID]&mc_cid=c4b382cb24" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Anti-Waiter Sentiment That Made Automat Restaurants Go Mainstream

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PEOPLE IN THE LATE 1800s really did not like waiters. Though waiters were still a novelty—they sprung up with the rise of the restaurant earlier that century—they had come to be regarded as a burden to service and, especially in the United States, were assailed for their unpleasantness.

Channeling this resentment, an 1885 New York Times editorial claimed that servers in restaurants were “one of the necessary evils of an advanced civilization” and noted that “the only occasion when a gentleman was excusable for using profanity in the presence of ladies was when it became necessary to blaspheme concerning the dereliction of waiters.” This is because waiters represented a special kind of annoyance: in a restaurant, a customer is “preyed upon by the thought that [his waiter] is hovering over him, watching his every movement, and ready to ‘size him up’ in proportion to the amount of his order.”

Another driver of the anti-waiter sentiment was the expectation of tipping, a European import that was maligned in the United States as “offensively un-American.” Because waiters were already viewed as a strain on customers, the prospect of tipping them was outrageous.

A popular 1916 book, The Itching Palm: A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America, noted that “the gift of a quarter to a waiter as a tip is an unsound transaction because the patron receives nothing in return—nothing of like substantiality.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine in 1913 said tipping was “a gross and offensive caricature of mercy… it curses him that gives and him that takes,” and as far back as 1877, the New York Times lamented, “When the waiter rushes forward to take your coat, hang it up, drag out your chair … for this wonderful galvanization of the waiter, what does it mean? Merely that he considers it probable, nay certain, that some of the silver change in your pocket will be transferred to his.”

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Hmmmmm... Bruthas may be on to something