Monthly Archives: June 2015

Seattle Public Library Menu Collection

The Daily Crackers menu (Olympia), courtesy The Seattle Public Library

The Daily Crackers menu (Olympia), courtesy The Seattle Public Library

Historic restaurant menus are a road leading to the past. What could one order, say, at Drake’s Restaurant in Seattle on March 11, 1910? Seattle Public Library’s historic menu collection lets us peak over the long-ago waitress’s starched shoulder: Baked ox heart and dressing? That will be 15-cents.

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