An elaborate Sunday brunch tableau fills the frame of this glossy chrome-era advertising postcard — a dramatic ice sculpture centrepiece towers above chafing dishes, carved meats, flower arrangements, and a cornucopia of hors d'oeuvres spread across a skirted banquet table, red damask curtains and Charles River views framing the scene at the S. & S. Livestock Co. Restaurant inside the Newton, Massachusetts Marriott. The Marriott at Commonwealth Ave. and Route 128/Massachusetts Turnpike was a landmark suburban hotel property in the Boston metro area; the S. & S. Livestock Co. branding — a nod to rustic American steakhouse aesthetics wildly at odds with the refined ice-carved swan on the table — reflects the 1970s vogue for themed dining rooms within major hotel chains. Published by Albee Marketing of Waltham, MA (catalogue no. 151007), this card was presumably distributed at the hotel front desk as a promotional piece and was never posted. The lavish food styling is a remarkable period document of aspirational American hotel dining culture.