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El Fenix Cafe

Description: The El Fenix Cafe menu contains the names and prices of their dishes, desserts, and beverages. The restaurant offered cocktails and relishes, salads, sandwiches, eggs and omelettes, soups, chicken and steak dinners, nonalcoholic beverages, wines, beer, fish, and a variety of Mexican dishes. The Special Mexican Dinner cost $1.25 at the time of this menu. A poem by James J. Metcalfe is written on the back of the menu.
Date: 1951~
Creator: El Fenix Cafe
Partner: Denton Public Library
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[News Clip: Cafe bombed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lover's Lane Cafe in Dallas being bombed shortly after closing for the night.
Date: May 23, 1951
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Automatic eatery]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the opening of an automatic cafe in Fort Worth that serves its dishes via conveyor belt.
Date: June 15, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Interior of a building]

Description: Photograph of the interior of an unknown building. There are walls made out of glass bricks, and neon lighting. There are tables with various people seated at them.
Date: [1951..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A woman standing next to a dining table]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman standing in a restaurant. She is wearing a white and purple dress and is standing in front of a restaurant table. She has short blond hair and looks off to the side while smiling.
Date: [1951..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Interior of a restaurant]

Description: Photograph of the interior of a restaurant. There are wooden chairs and tables in the restaurant that are set with dining ware. There is a large mural on the back wall of a building in a wooded area.
Date: [1951..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hungry student]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ewart Kyle, a junior at Texas Christian University dubbed the "Hamburger King" after consuming ten in one sitting.
Date: May 27, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wedding bells]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a drive-in waitress in Fort Worth marrying a chef at the restaurant where they both work. The script goes on to describe a make-believe wedding between young children during a recital at the Northside Recreation Building.
Date: May 30, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hungry Humphrey]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the massive appetite of wrestler Humphrey Pennyworth, who eats 78 plates of food at a Dallas cafeteria.
Date: January 27, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Automatic eatery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the opening of an automatic cafe in Fort Worth that serves its dishes via conveyor belt.
Date: June 15, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cafe bombed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lover's Lane Cafe in Dallas being bombed shortly after closing for the night.
Date: May 23, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Elfde Gebod Restaurant Sign]

Description: Photograph of the sign for Elfde Gebod, a restaurant in Antwerp, Belgium. The sign is painted in cursive letters on a glass window. There is a rose bush on the left side of the photograph.
Date: [1951..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Victoria Clary holding a drink in a restaurant]

Description: Photograph of Victoria Clary standing in an unknown restaurant. She is holding a drink and looking directly at the camera. She is wearing a white t-shirt and has a pair of glasses on her collar. Other individuals can be seen dining in the background.
Date: [1951..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Interior of a restaurant]

Description: Photograph of the interior of a restaurant. There are large wooden tables and chairs, and there is a wall decoration of a man and woman dancing. There are some unknown individuals seated at tables in the background.
Date: [1951..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Interior of a restaurant]

Description: Photograph of the interior of a restaurant. There is a row of booths in the foreground. The tables have plates and utensils on them. Above the booths are lamps with cloth lampshades on them.
Date: [1951..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Wedding bells]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a drive-in waitress in Fort Worth marrying a chef at the restaurant where they both work. The script goes on to describe a make-believe wedding between young children during a recital at the Northside Recreation Building.
Date: May 30, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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