1920s Berlin Cafes & Nightclubs

Bruno Schmitz design       click all images twice for full size
     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

correction: this one was in France

    

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

snacks

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

     

1920s BERLIN CAFES & NIGHTCLUBS

    

 

    

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an Adolf Hengeler 1904 painting

    
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a René Magritte painting

       

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little 1888 gooseberries for a tart,  acidic,  tangy,  sour pie . . .

wash it down with unsweetened lemonade
      
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in 1943 Busby Berkeley created this film set for Carmen Miranda's performance
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the dancers look tired in this photograph

        

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there are many varieties of plums,  all of them lewd and suggestive ... these are from 1854

      
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an 1886 illustration of mulberries . . . rude prurient filth!
      
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exposed fruit should stay in the marriage bedroom,  and not be vulgarly paraded in decent public ... Willem Kalf knew that when he painted this in 1659 so let's continue,  and disregard all of the vulgar sexual aspects of fruit . . .

       
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oh my 

      
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chemicals on a pineapple ... who would make love with you now,  tart root?
a Hans Schleger poster,  1960        click twice
      
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an Agnes Miller Parker illustration, 1940s?
      
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1961 'Funny Face' powdered drink mix for children

 
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1903 ornamental berries from France        click twice
      
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a Vincent van Gogh still life painting       click twice
      
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a 1922 "Vanilla bush laden with fruit" ... the paper sheets were for the photograph
      
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a Charles Harper illustration
      
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an old advertisement for printing inks

          

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a Giovanni Battista Ferrari illustration ... this is how limes used to look,
and here's a modern lime fruit redesigned . . .  

      
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a Willi Exler illustration,  1960       click twice

      
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 a Bernie Fuchs illustration

    
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"The Young Bacchus"   Franz von Stuck,  1909?       click twice

    
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German Ornament,  1886?

    

The concept of LUNCH . . .

a Bruce McCall illustration for the New Yorker Magazine

     
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a Ralph Goings realism painting       click image twice for full size

          
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Jim Woodring

         
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a Pieter Bruegel The Elder painting,  1500s       click twice
                
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an 1868 cartoon
             
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Michael Sowa       click twice

       
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Michael Sowa       click twice

                

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"Hot Chestnuts!"     an 1871 street vendor             
      
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Richard Estes art       click twice

              
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Richard Estes art       click twice 

             

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this 1896 automated cafeteria eliminated employees     click twice
             
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Ellsworth Young's 1905 cartoon illustration
of an ancient Roman lunch
             
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a 1913 humorous magazine illustration
             
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1919  "Sheep brains and pork plucks  (organs and intestines)"
             
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a Bernard Boutet de Monvel drawing:  the cheese is hard and sour     click twice
             
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a 1940s illustration
 
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Bill Elder for MAD       click twice

    
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an Arthur Getz illustration

     
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Drew Friedman ... disappointing intellectualism

    
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1939 restaurant booths       click twice

         

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a UPA animation,  1950s     click twice
             
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a Bob Jones illustration
 

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Noel Fontanet
        

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