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Men eating at a seafood bar lunch counter – Antique Wall Art

Men eating at a seafood bar lunch counter — historic image
Men eating at a seafood bar lunch counter. Historic image from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Men eating at a seafood bar lunch counter comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Men eating at a seafood bar lunch counter

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Men lined up along a long counter, elbows on the wood, suggest a quick midday meal taken standing or perched on stools, the kind of working lunch common at seafood bars near docks and markets. Counters like this were fed by whatever the boats and fish houses brought in that morning, so the menu changed with the catch and the room smelled of the harbor. The record gives little beyond the setting, so the scene is best read as a snapshot of everyday eating habits in a market district, where a fast, filling plate was part of the working day.

Original scan3,668 × 2,945 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi
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