Ray's Funny "Chow Box", c. 1930s-40s with Lunch Related Jokes Scratched In All Over copper print blocks making a really wonderful tabletop

making a really wonderful tabletop sculpture

Talk about patina

just everything great in antique playing cards

A representative sample of pages documented

Ray's Funny "Chow Box", c. 1930s-40s with Lunch Related Jokes Scratched In All Over copper print blocks making a really wonderful tabletopI think Ray's wife amused herself a great deal annotating his lunch box I imagine much more fun than preparing and packing his lunch each day! Photos detail the playful notes scratched into the paint everywhere, which comment on the matter of lunch ("Have respect for our coffee It is old and weak", "Chef's Special: Baloney ala sandwich," "Music furnished with our bean sandwiches"..). and also treat the lunch box itself as a place: "complaints