Hamburg Heaven " Only the best Steers May Enter" Plate Mug Restaurant New York

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Hamburg Heaven " Only the best Steers May Enter" Plate and Mug Restaurant Ware New York.
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1938, Phyllis S. Moffett from Wilton, Conn., opened the first Hamburg Heaven with 15 seats at 696 Madison Ave. in New York City. By 1942, Hamburg Heaven Inc. had three restaurants and used the slogan, "The Gates of Heaven Never Close." By 1959, there were five locations, including an East Side Airline Terminal restaurant.
According to news accounts, Rita Hayworth and Henry Fonda regularly enjoyed the restaurant's prime beef burgers, homemade pies and cakes. Beyond the food, based on
this circa 1942 menu,
the restaurant also sold its "plates, cups, bowls, ketchup jugs, ash trays and salt and peppers, too."
Many of the Hamburg Heaven restaurants had "one-person booths with swivel trays that looked like school desks." Ed Levine of The New York Times described these single-occupancy booths as "... a particularly lovely anachronism: Take your coat off before you sit down, as the space is so confining you'll find yourself twisting like a contortionist to do so after the fact."
In March 1964, Moffett died at the age of 66.
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