VAUCRESSON. Café Creole.

Item Details

New Orleans, Ca 1970s

1st Printing. Printed bifolium, with two slips. Illustrated upper and lower wrappers. 12" x 9". Brown, card stock self wrappers, printed in black, black lettering with prices written in blue ink. One slip is white tissue paper, with black type. The second slip is white paper with black type. Both stapled at head of menu. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy, some staple holes to head of menu, corners a bit rubbed, some light soiling and age toning to inner wrappers, two blue ink markings (price adjustments) to the slips, otherwise internally clean and bright. 

The Vaucresson family started in the food business in 1899 as butchers. In 1965, generations later the family opened Vaucresson Cafe Creole on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. This place lasted about 10 years. Vince Vaucresson said in an interview in 2017 that it was the "first African-American owned business on Bourbon Street since Reconstruction."

At the time of cataloguing, Vince and his family now run the Vaucresson Sausage Co., selling Creole styled links.

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