Happy New Year!
Bain News Service, Publisher. Cafe, New Year's Eve . , ca. 1910. [Between and Ca. 1915] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014694999/. My Sepia Saturday post this week commemorates New Year's Eve with photos from the Library of Congress and vintage cards I've found. At Hotel Prosperity all the tables have been reserved. How about that? Keppler, Udo J., Artist. New Year's eve at the hotel prosperity / Kep . , 1909. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011647535/. Federal Theatre Project, U.S., Sponsor. "Vaudeville frolic" 15 acts: Gala midnight show New Year's eve . San Diego California, None. [California: federal art project, between 1936 and 1941] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/98516889/ I've checked an inflation calculator for these prices. Thirty-five cents in 1936 is $7.00 now and 55¢ is $11.00. So entertainment is a category where prices have really skyrocketed. I didn't...