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Southern Mansion

Southern Mansion

Southern Mansion

Southern Mansion

Southern Mansion


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Thanks to Jim Mitchell, curator of the West Virginia State Museum, we were able to ID this one based on the addition of the restaurant's motto: "Famous for food."

It was located at 1425 Baltimore and 14th streets in Kansas City, Mo.

According to a story on pitch.com, written by Charles Ferruzza, "It was a white-tablecloth dining room with mirrored columns, a spacious dance floor and a bandstand big enough for a small orchestra," Ferruzza wrote. "The restaurant's motto (on the card, anyway) was "Famous for food."

"'It was probably more famous for gambling,' says veteran talk-show host Walt Bodine, who remembers hearing about police raids on the place back in the 1940s. 'I heard stories about cards and dice being frantically flushed down toilets. But I never ate there.'"

Also see the ad below contributed by Vintage Kansas City, with the ad's color very similar to the green on the soup bowl.

A sample plate, located on this page, missed the mark as to the green color.

We've just added a brown variation of this pattern below, but because it was purchased along with several other plates with exactly the same color brown and size and shape, we think it was likely produced as a sample and was not used at the restaurant.

 

 


 

 

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