From the Archives: Dining on the Hill

Though the ingredients of the “Hartwick Special,” “The Normal Special” and the “High School Favorite” are lost to time (along with that 15-cent price tag!) this menu, from a Formal Faculty Reception on Sept. 27, 1939, was part of a scrapbook gifted to the Paul F. Cooper, Jr. archives by Marjorie “Corky” Corkum ‘42. The reception was hosted at the Karmelkorn Shop at 293 Main Street, where Nina’s Pizzeria is now located.

If you’re looking for dinner and a show, the Phi Sigma Phi’s sorority “Ye Old Bohemia” event, held in 1939, was a hot ticket on campus, with a singer, games and dancing. And just because napkins and “seegars and cigarettes” were listed under “edibles” doesn’t mean you could eat them! In fact, the menu advised that one would have to go outside to smoke.

Or maybe you’re craving chicken fricassee with a side of French fried potatoes? This menu – which also included a fruit cup, stuffed olives and pineapple salad – was from the Tenth Annual Parents’ Day dinner on April 27, 1940.

Photo is part of the collection in Hartwick College Paul F. Cooper, Jr. Archives.