Menu from the Florida Avenue Grill restaurant
date: label: Date
content: after 2009
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Used by
content: Florida Avenue Grill, founded 1944
label: Subject of
content: Lacey C. Wilson Sr., American, died 1989
notes: label: Description
content: A menu from the Florida Avenue Grill restaurant in Washington, DC. The menu is a tri-fold design, with plastic sleeves bound by plastic trim. The sheets of paper inside each plastic sleeve can be removed or replaced. The front of the menu features a full-page photograph of the restaurant's founder, Lacey C. Wilson Sr., with the logo of the restaurant at the bottom-right corner. Adhered to the upper right hand corner is a sticker, worn around the edges, with the text "FLORIDA AVENUE GRILL / 65th / ANNIVERSARY 200 [obscured]". On the inside of the menu, in the upper banner, are the headers "BREAKFAST" on the left side, "SANDWICHES" in the middle, and "DINNER" on the right. The breakfast menu is listed on the left, sandwiches and daily specials in the middle, and dinners, seafood, desserts and beverages on the right. The verso of the middle fold tells the story of the founding of the Florida Avenue Grill, with pictures of the original owners Bertha Wilson and Lacey C. Wilson Sr., and the subsequent owner Lacey C. Wilson Jr. The back cover has pictures of souvenirs that can be purchased from the restaurant, including a collectible souvenir menu featuring President Barak Obama, a souvenir mug, two kinds of t-shirts, and a keychain. The outermost top left and top right corners are protected with small metal end caps.
place: label: Place used
content: 1100 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Cooking and dining
label: Topic
content: Foodways
label: Topic
content: Local and regional
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Imar and Tasha Hutchins, Florida Avenue Grill
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.114.1
objectType: label: Type
content: menus
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: printing ink on paper, plastic, metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (closed): 11 5/8 × 9 3/4 × 5/16 in. (29.5 × 24.8 × 0.8 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (open): 11 5/8 × 27 3/4 × 3/4 in. (29.5 × 70.5 × 1.9 cm)