{"id":46939,"date":"2021-04-23T05:05:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=46939"},"modified":"2021-04-23T05:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:05:44","slug":"picture-postals-from-lovecraft-shepards-in-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/picture-postals-from-lovecraft-shepards-in-providence\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture postals from Lovecraft: Shepard’s in Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another picture from Lovecraft’s momentous homecoming-day from New York City, which I presume I am soon to encounter again on starting the second volume of Letters to Family<\/em>. I had already looked at the Art Club<\/a> and the Strand cinema<\/a>. Now there’s a newly found picture of the interior of “Shepard’s (neo-) Colonial Restaurant”, also mentioned as a place visited in celebration. Not great, as postcards go, but there are two pictures and it gives an indication. I suspect the blank space may have once held a miniature paper year-calendar. The picture on the right is faintly marked “Club Parlor”.<\/p>\n

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We went out to an exhibition of paintings at the Art Club, (the colonial house in hilly Thomas Street, in front of which I snap-shotted Mortonius last fall [1923] and had dinner downtown at Shepard’s (neo-) Colonial Restaurant. In the evening a cinema show at the good old Strand in Washington Street completed a memorable and well-rounded day. (Selected Letters II)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presumably one of his aunts was a member, and could invite family guests. Not the same as his favourite and more affordable Shepard Cafeteria<\/a> in Providence. Here we see a boy waiter (his face made somewhat animalistic by the chairs seen through the pen-work) bearing a second tray of do-nuts to feed Lovecraft as he dines at the Shepard Cafeteria.<\/p>\n

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Different version…<\/p>\n

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Another picture from Lovecraft’s momentous homecoming-day from New York City, which I presume I am soon to encounter again on …<\/p>\n

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