April 12, 2024
VTG TEPCO CHINA CONFUCIUS PATTERN CUP & SAUCER FROM HOME CAFE HAWTHORNE NV-RARE
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The Home Café was a popular Hawthorne, Nev., restaurant owned and operated by Lynn Leong. Newspaper references trace the operation of the café from the late 1930s through a reference to it during Civil Rights protests in Hawthorne in 1964. Countless articles from the local newspaper, The Mineral County Independent-News, refer to events related to family celebrations held at the café as well as accounts of thefts of money and wares. The editor of the paper (as of 2009) recalled going to the Home Café with his family to enjoy a wide variety of Chinese and American foods. Another longtime Hawthorne resident said it was the place to take a date after the ball game or a movie. The Home Café is of particular interest to lovers of vintage restaurant ware because of its use of the TEPCo Confucius pattern of vitreous china. Although TEPCo's Confucius was a stock pattern that was used in a variety of venues, The Home Café chose to have its name topmarked on many pieces beginning in May 1957. An item in the ShoppersÂ’ Column of the May 29, 1957,Mineral County Independent and Hawthorne News bore this out. It stated, "Did you see the new and colorful dishware at the Home Cafe in a Chinese Motif? Very, very nice." A local couple recalled the colorful look of this large café awash with the TEPCo Confucius pattern in every imaginable size and
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