Harvey girls

This 57-minute, 2013 film explores the era of the young women who contributed to the Harvey Company history by serving as waitresses in the restaurants along the transcontinental railroad from the 1880s till the 1960s. Over the years more than 100,000 brave young women, “Harvey Girls” as they were called, made an unusual decision to ...

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The Fred Harvey Company's restaurants and hotels brought clean & nutritious food and outstanding lodgings to the railroad & automobile traveler from 1875 to 1965, the first chain of restaurants and the first chain of hotels in America.

When the managing editor for Smitten Historical (a Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas imprint) asked me to join in a collection of historical romances, I got excited. I've always wanted to write a historical. I've even delved into it a time or two with Slider, published in The Saturday Evening Post's collection of short stories and an unpublished…

Read 107 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Zia Award for Excellence, New Mexico Press Women From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey …

The Harvey Girls is a 1946 MGM musical film based on a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams about Fred Harvey's famous Harvey House restaurants. Directed by George Sidney, the film stars Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Virginia O'Brien, Ray Bolger, and Marjorie Main. It won an Academy Award for Best Song for "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", written by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren. The film was a product of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM. Plot A group of Harvey Girls, new…