The Panther Room of The College Inn, Hotel Sherman Chicago 1939

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The Panther Room of The College Inn, Hotel Sherman Chicago 1939In the 1920s, entertainment at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago consisted of genteel string orchestras playing waltzes for guests. American band leader and saxophonist Isham Jones shook up this tradition by playing jazz oriented music that originated in African American communities and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. However, the hotel was not racially integrated. Jones fronted an all white jazz orchestra, and black musicians were barred from

the 200-seat restaurant was every Tiki fan’s dream

and the company’s logo – a black cat wearing a bow tie and a play on the Katz name – was displayed on a large sign above the building

liner cruises along the western coast of Norway

The property is now being redeveloped for housing by the island’s government

We’re not sure when it morphed into Mister Corned Beef but the owner Nate – we can’t find his surname yet – was obviously quite a character

This menu is dated 1964

Attending this children’s tea party aboard the SS Canton must have been a lot of fun

and food service was by the famous Fred Harvey Company

An orchestra played every night and

The original Chinatown area

the rooster is outlined against the sun with the undulating hills of the French countryside and its charming small towns behind it

When World War II started in 1939 the ship was chartered to United States Lines for one voyage in order to return American citizens from Europe