Pepper Pot, New York 1920s NYPL Coffee and tea were the

Coffee and tea were the other drinks on offer

before air-conditioning and foreign travel was the norm

They both did the work in exchange for abalone dinners

as Clark said later

Pepper Pot, New York 1920s NYPL Coffee and tea were theIn 1920s New York, The Pepper Pot restaurant in Greenwich Village was the place to be seen and was rather grandly advertised as A Meeting Place for Interesting and Interested People. It was established by Doc Carlyle Sherlock and his wife Viola when they retired from the silent movie industry in Hollywood. A bohemian space waitresses wore artists smocks and the dcor included Chinese lanterns and bouquets of red peppers strung from a labyrinth of pipes