Cool Vintage Menus from Classic LA Restaurants

Jennifer Chen
The Bold Italic
Published in
5 min readNov 7, 2014

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The Los Angeles Public Library Central branch is in a beautiful building with miles of books and commissioned artwork — and if you ride the elevator, you’ll see vintage library catalogue cards lining the walls behind Plexiglass. One of the best parts of the Central branch is the menu collection, an extensive archive of restaurant, airline, banquet, and railroad menus. Ani Boyadjian, the principal librarian of…

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