The Blue Room, The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, 1952

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The Blue Room, The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, 1952We love this 1952 menu cover of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans for its wonderful image. What's going on behind those illuminated windows, we wonder, and look at the stylish automobiles lined up on the street. The building isn't actually blue, of course, it's the clever way the artist brought attention to The Blue Room, once one of the most famous supper clubs in America. Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra were among the list of

debuted there in 1929

The hotel's most famous guest – the billionaire businessman Howard Hughes – came to stay in 1966

There was also full fountain service for ice cream

Each print is accompanied by a copy of the menu interior or exterior

no dancing

Like many American diners

For modesty sake

A scantily clad waitress sends her tray flying in this lovely print of a menu cover from a legendary New York nightclub

Each print is accompanied by copies of the four interior menus

The tweaked couplet says: ‘When drunk and singing

the Hotel New Yorker was much admired

eating and drinking