{"product_id":"gypsy-tea-kettle-new-york-1949","title":"Gypsy Tea Kettle, New York 1949","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Gypsy Tea Kettle opened in New York City in 1930 as a place for housewives, shop girls and ladies of leisure to pause from work or shopping, buy a sandwich and a cup of tea and find out what the future held by having their tea leaves read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Famous astrological palmists” were in attendance daily to amaze customers with scientific reading on success, health and happiness,” according to the blurb inside this menu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTea-cup readings were gratis since charging for fortune-telling was illegal at the time. However, food prices were bumped up to include the 25c cost of a reading and tips were also encouraged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe clampdown by police on “establishments of occult nomenclature,” had been going on for some time and female police officers regularly went undercover to catch people who read tea-cups and palms or who gazed into crystal balls for money.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New York Times alleged the crackdown was because the trend was prompting a “wave of melancholia” among women who were frightened by the prophecies. Another theory is that the purge on fortune tellers, who were mostly of Romany heritage, was racially motivated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite the crackdown, tea reading parlours remained popular. Female customers said it brought excitement into their lives to hear that unexpected money was on its way or that a tall, dark handsome man would cross their path. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1935 a romantic song called In a Little Gypsy Tea Room by bandleader Bob Crosby and his orchestra fueled the craze even more and tea-reading parlours flourished across the US.(You can still hear the hit ballad if you put the song title into a Google search.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 1949, the date on this menu, police raids had been abandoned in favor of other crime-fighting missions and the Gypsy Tea Kettle had expanded to two other branches in New York. The last one closed in the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCourtesy Private Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGallery quality Giclée print on natural white, matte, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson K3 archival inks. Custom printed with border for matting and framing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll printed in USA.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eEach print is accompanied by a copy of the interior menu or cover.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Love Menu Art","offers":[{"title":"8.5x11\" Archival Print (Unframed) $25.00","offer_id":57491694518438,"sku":"rdi1790051753786","price":19.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11x14 Archival Print (Unframed) $30.00","offer_id":57491694551206,"sku":"uit1790051753787","price":20.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"13x19 Archival Print (Unframed) $40.00","offer_id":57491694583974,"sku":"rgo1790051753788","price":25.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x20 Archival Print (Unframed) $55.00","offer_id":57491694616742,"sku":"rbn1790051753789","price":41.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20x24 Archival Print (Unframed) $85.00","offer_id":57491694649510,"sku":"bhn1790051753790","price":67.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x36 Archival Print (Unframed) $135.00","offer_id":57491694682278,"sku":"pvc1790051753791","price":106.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/9133\/8662\/files\/gypsy-tea-kettle-new-york-1949_1.webp?v=1790051758","url":"https:\/\/coffeetamper.shop\/products\/gypsy-tea-kettle-new-york-1949","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}