Vintage Tea Room Menus
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- | This page hosts vintage Tea Room Menus. Some offer a free or paid reading with every meal and some merely present as public tea rooms. They are listed on one page, alphabetically first by state and then by tea room name. Some of these tea rooms may also appear in the following sets of images: | + | This page hosts vintage Tea Room Menus. Some offer a free or paid tea leaf reading with every meal and some merely present as public tea rooms. They are listed on one page, alphabetically first by state and then by tea room name. Some of these tea rooms may also appear in the following sets of images: |
* [[:Category:Vintage Tea Room Postcards|Vintage Tea Room Postcards]]: These are sorted by state or nation; one page per state or non-USA nation. | * [[:Category:Vintage Tea Room Postcards|Vintage Tea Room Postcards]]: These are sorted by state or nation; one page per state or non-USA nation. | ||
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* [[Vintage Tea Room Matchbook Covers]]: These are listed on one page, alphabetical first by state and then by tea room name | * [[Vintage Tea Room Matchbook Covers]]: These are listed on one page, alphabetical first by state and then by tea room name | ||
- | You can use the site's search function (at left, in the directory bar, to search for tea | + | You can use the site's search function (at left, in the directory bar), to search for tea leaf reading and fortune telling tea cup pages. |
== USA Tea Room Menus == | == USA Tea Room Menus == | ||
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=== Virginia Tea Room Menus === | === Virginia Tea Room Menus === | ||
=== Washington Tea Room Menus === | === Washington Tea Room Menus === | ||
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+ | [[File:Tea-Room-Cafe-Menu-Bellingham-WA.jpg|center|thumb|400px|Tea Room Cafe, Bellingham, Washington, menu cover, circa 1960-1965. Like many other family-owned Cantonese-style restaurants in the American West, The Tea Room Cafe offered "Chinese and American Food," a term that refers to a specific cuisine that mingles old traditional southern Chinese dishes like snow peas, bamboo shoots, and black mushrooms over rice with newer American-Chinese dishes like chop suey. Chinese restaurants in the West were often owned by families who had come to the United States as immigrants during the 19th century, working first in the gold fields, then in the building of railroads, and eventually settling into running restaurants, truck gardens, and garden nurseries. Such restaurants generally followed the paths of rail lines. Their interiors were typically decorated with glass-panelled "wind-chime" style ceiling lights, vases of silk flowers at the tables, and images of dragons and Taoist deities such as Guan Yu (sometimes called General Kun) or the Three Star Gods. One restaurant ware supplier, the F. S. Louie Company of Berkeley, California, kept most of these small establishments stocked with Cantonese style dinnerware, often decorated around the rim with the "Greek fret" pattern shown on this menu, and bearing the name of the restaurant, tea room, or tea garden, as well as its address and telephone number. The Tea Room Cafe of Bellingham, Washington, was in existence from 1960 to 1970 at the 206 West Holly Street address shown here; the old-style telephone exchange number, beginning with letters rather than numbers, places this menu within the earlier range of that time-frame. I am not certain what the Chinese ideograms are, but after consulting an online translation service, i am pretty sure that they are hand-written characters for 茶室 -- "Cháshì" or "Tea Room."]] | ||
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=== West Virginia Tea Room Menus === | === West Virginia Tea Room Menus === | ||
=== Wisconsin Tea Room Menus === | === Wisconsin Tea Room Menus === |
Latest revision as of 05:04, 5 January 2021
This page hosts vintage Tea Room Menus. Some offer a free or paid tea leaf reading with every meal and some merely present as public tea rooms. They are listed on one page, alphabetically first by state and then by tea room name. Some of these tea rooms may also appear in the following sets of images:
- Vintage Tea Room Postcards: These are sorted by state or nation; one page per state or non-USA nation.
- Vintage Tea Room Menus: These are listed on one page, alphabetical first by state and then by tea room name
- Vintage Tea Room Business Cards: These are listed on one page, alphabetical first by state and then by tea room name
- Vintage Tea Room Matchbook Covers: These are listed on one page, alphabetical first by state and then by tea room name
You can use the site's search function (at left, in the directory bar), to search for tea leaf reading and fortune telling tea cup pages.
USA Tea Room Menus
Alabama Tea Room Menus
Alaska Tea Room Menus
Arizona Tea Room Menus
Arkansas Tea Room Menus
California Tea Room Menus
Colorado Tea Room Menus
Connecticut Tea Room Menus
Delaware Tea Room Menus
Florida Tea Room Menus
Georgia Tea Room Menus
Hawaii Tea Room Menus
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Minnesota Tea Room Menus
Mississippi Tea Room Menus
Missouri Tea Room Menus
Montana Tea Room Menus
Nebraska Tea Room Menus
Nevada Tea Room Menus
New Hampshire Tea Room Menus
New Jersey Tea Room Menus
New Mexico Tea Room Menus
New York Tea Room Menus
North Carolina Tea Room Menus
North Dakota Tea Room Menus
Ohio Tea Room Menus
Oklahoma Tea Room Menus
Oregon Tea Room Menus
Pennsylvania Tea Room Menus
Rhode Island Tea Room Menus
South Carolina Tea Room Menus
South Dakota Tea Room Menus
Tennessee Tea Room Menus
Texas Tea Room Menus
Utah Tea Room Menus
Vermont Tea Room Menus
Virginia Tea Room Menus
Washington Tea Room Menus
West Virginia Tea Room Menus
Wisconsin Tea Room Menus
Wyoming Tea Room Menus
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British Commonwealth Tea Room Menus
Australia Menus
England Menus
Ireland Menus
Scotland Menus
Europe Tea Room Menus
Switzerland Menus
If the number of menus grows too great for one page, they will be broken out into individual state lists, as with the Vintage Tea Room Postcards.
catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room