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<p>[QUOTE="bercrystal, post: 1136093, member: 88"]That was a big thing back when everyone had "cocktail parties". If you look at glassware from this era you will see all sorts of pieces that were meant to be used by the hostess to serve her guests both at small parties to large dinner parties. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most people just don't entertain in the same way. They are more apt to use paper or plastic disposable stuff & serve stuff they purchased at a local deli or at the neighborhood grocery store. Those options would have never occurred to a hostess back in the 1940's to 1970's because she would have been the talk of the neighborhood.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bercrystal, post: 1136093, member: 88"]That was a big thing back when everyone had "cocktail parties". If you look at glassware from this era you will see all sorts of pieces that were meant to be used by the hostess to serve her guests both at small parties to large dinner parties. Most people just don't entertain in the same way. They are more apt to use paper or plastic disposable stuff & serve stuff they purchased at a local deli or at the neighborhood grocery store. Those options would have never occurred to a hostess back in the 1940's to 1970's because she would have been the talk of the neighborhood.[/QUOTE]
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