National Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Café Martin, New York 1904 New York It shows an impressively dressed

It shows an impressively dressed lobster entertaining a group of mermaids

) Billingsley shook his head

had a change of name and eventually closed and burnt down in 1980

realized customers were queuing up for his ice-cream and milk shakes - rather than the items on sale in the drugstore – and he soon had his first sit-down restaurant

54 third class passengers and up to 500 immigrants who would have been accommodated in steerage

National Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Café Martin, New York 1904 New York It shows an impressively dressedCaf Martin was one of New York's grandest restaurants and would have been the perfect place in 1904 to celebrate booming business. The newly formed National Association of Automobile Manufacturers comprised a membership of some 60 makers of motors cars including Ford and Buick, as well as the makers of automotive parts. The restaurant was run by two French brothers who had taken it over from Delmonico's, another culinary institution, and modeled Caf