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Logo Identification
and
Restaurant Location References

Restaurant China Volume 1 (particularly airline, ship, railroad, and military logos; click link for detailed list of book contents)

Restaurant China Volume 2 (particularly restaurant and hotel logos and locations; click link for detailed list of book contents)

Restaurant history and menu books (click link for list)

Ship flag books (identify line name and country of ship flags; primarily Brown's Flags and Funnels)

Airline logos (logos, full name, hubs, some with individual website and history)

Yacht club burgee books; also visit: http://www.burgees.com/burgeeframe.htm (click link for illustrations of approximately 1000 yacht club burgees)

Old National Geographic Magazine advertisements (identify and date transportation, hotel, and company logos)

Casino logos: refer to Casinos and Their Ashtrays: A Collectors Guide with Casino Histories by Art Anderson, 208 pages, 8½ x 11", softcover, well illustrated in black and white, © 1994, $21.95 postpaid. Out of print, but copies available at Amazon.

Restaurant chain information (click link and scroll)

Hotel Red Books (locate old hotels and identify logos; with these red covered books published from the late-1800s through the 1980s were originally found in hotels and on trains)

Old, as well as recent, AAA books or the like (locate old and current foodservice concerns and identify logos; often available at flea markets or garage sales)

Old and current telephone books (locate foodservice concerns and identify logos)

Matchcovers (locate foodservice concerns and identify logos)

Postcards (locate foodservice concerns and identify logos)

Trademark Electronic Search System (Tess) (use to search for United States restaurant, hotel, and so forth registered trademarks)

16 Million Businesses Phone Book (earlier or later versions may have a different name) and other directories on CD (locate recent foodservice concerns in the U.S. without knowing the state on 16 Million Businesses)

Online Yellow Pages (locate current foodservice concerns, but must know state)

Online Acronym Finder or Acronyms and Abbreviations (click link to look up initials)

And, of course, Google

Also see information on fake, reproduction & commemorative patterns (click link to read)