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Beer Coaster — Restaurace Lidový dům, Rokycany (Jednota Consumer Cooperative)
Object/Artifact
Round pressed wood-pulp beer coaster (beer mat / pivní tácek), printed on the shown face in red/maroon ink over a yellow rectangular panel with a stepped-arch red border. The panel reads "RESTAURACE / LIDOVÝ DŮM / ROKYCANY." Below, centered, is a cogwheel emblem carrying a banner lettered "JEDNOTA," with "ROKYCANY" printed to its right. The reverse is not imaged (beer mats often bear a second design on the back). Diameter not measurable without a scale (standard mats are roughly 9–10.5 cm). The board is heavily aged and mottled.
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Brought to Cuba by Leopoldo Arús Caraballo. Used by his father.
A piece of socialist-era Czechoslovak hospitality ephemera. After the 1952 reorganization of Czechoslovak retail, urban shops passed to state trade and district consumer cooperatives — each named "Jednota" — were tasked with supplying the countryside and operating rural and small-town pubs and restaurants. The cogwheel "JEDNOTA" emblem is that cooperative's mark; "Restaurace Lidový dům" (People's House Restaurant) in Rokycany, a district town in West Bohemia (Plzeň region), was a Jednota-run establishment. The coaster advertised that restaurant.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Leopoldo Arús Caraballo collection
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection
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Restaurace Lidovy Dům
1989
Rokycany
West Bohemia
Czechoslovakia
Eastern Europe
Europe
Restaurante Lidovy Dum
"RESTAURACE LIDOVY DŮM/ROKYCANY/JEDNOTA"
Czech
People's House Restaurant/Rokycany/Jednota
Printed (Czech; English in brackets): "RESTAURACE / LIDOVÝ DŮM / ROKYCANY" [Restaurant "People's House," Rokycany]; a cogwheel emblem with banner "JEDNOTA" [Jednota, the consumer cooperative]; "ROKYCANY."
10.5 cm
Cardboard
Pressed/molded wood-pulp board (beer-mat board); printing ink (red/maroon and yellow).
Fair
Leopoldo Arús Caraballo
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Rokycany
West Bohemia
Czechoslovakia
Eastern Europe
Europe
production, acquisition
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use