Title: RARE HENDERSON'S CONEY ISLAND TOOTHPICK HOLDER EARLY 1900'SDate/Period: LATE 1800'S EARLY 1900'SDimension: approx 2.5 x 1.5Material: porcelain ceramicAdditional Information: Custom Topmarked Hendersons Restaurant Toothpick Holder that is from the Late 1800's Early 1900's and is a Rare Find made in Austria by J. R. Gibney . Henderson's Restaurant and Vaudeville Theater was located on Surf Ave in Coney Island, N.Y. This item is a restaurant ware quality item used at the Henderson's Restaurant. is some history:Henderson's Music Hall was another business along the Bowery that began as a restaurant in the late 1880's. Henderson too, replaced his wood frame business with a brick one when it burned, and he added a music hall. Henderson staged vaudeville shows on Broadway's scale but wasn't attracting enough business among the race track crowd. The owner was out West when his son telegraphed that the music hall's comic opera company was doing poorly. His father wired back, "Put in another company." His son misunderstood that his father wanted to cut his losses, and instead added a new troupe to the one already t While the overhead was double and should have bankrupt them, remarkably Henderson's began playing to packed houses and turned a handsome profit. Their patrons knew an entertainment bargain when they saw one and appreciated extravagance. It also was w Harpo Marx made his stage debut in 1908
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