Foster's and Bickford's diners and bakeries [graphic]. ca. 1940-1950?

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Foster's and Bickford's diners and bakeries [graphic]. ca. 1940-1950?

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/775611910

Chiefly diner and bakery storefronts (exteriors), interiors, and window displays. Some photographs of staff in restaurants and bakeries, and some portraits of unidentified executives are also present.

2 boxes and 2 oversize boxes (ca. 700 photographic prints, some ephemera) : b&w, some hand-colored ; chiefly 8 x 10 in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8198100

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Gabriel Moulin Studios

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Bickford's, Inc.

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Samuel L. Bickford, of New York-based Bickford's, along with other investors, purchased the White Lunch System (a Pacific coast restaurant chain) in 1924. They renamed the compnay Foster Lunch System, for co-owner Lamont Foster. In 1932 the Foster chain became a subsidiary of Bickford's, Inc. (cf. The Bickford story, in American Restaurant Magazine, Aug. 1956) From the description of Foster's and Bickford's diners and bakeries [graphic]. ca. 1940-1950? (University of California, Berk...

Foster Lunch System, Ltd.

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