Martin Bros. Breakfast Menu, New Orleans, 1940s El Paso By the early 1970s the

By the early 1970s the hotel was abandoned and severely run down

He mass produced tomato sauce for millions of Americans who were ready to prepare an authentic Italian meal at home

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This 1930s image might have been used in the interior of a menu

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Martin Bros. Breakfast Menu, New Orleans, 1940s El Paso By the early 1970s theBennie and Clovis Martin were ex streetcar conductors who opened a hole in the wall coffee stand in New Orleans' French Quarter in 1922. According to many accounts, it was the Martin brothers who created the world famous po' boy sandwich (originally known as a "poor boy" sandwich) to support striking streetcar drivers and conductors in 1929. As part of their pledge, they gave sandwiches to the strikers. Bennie Martin was quoted as saying "We fed those