My wifes grandfather had a sketch of himself done in Cafe Lausanne in
Sept 10th 1906.  Thats all I have -- Is somewhere in Europe,
maybeParis but not sure.  Where is it most likely to have been.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 02 Sep 2006 05:50 PDT

Does this look familiar, at all:


http://www.photographersdirect.com/buyers/stockphoto.asp?imageid=176839

I suppose that it could be in Lausanne itself ...

Are there any other clues:

Maybe a Swiss Cheese or a Cuckoo Clock?

I have found Café Lausanne from Turku, Finland, to Caracas, not that
these were there 100 years ago.  In Lausanne, there is a Grand Café
and a Café Lausanne Signal sarl, and a Café Lausanne in nearby
Montreaux  - and probably elsewhere.

I rather suspect that the caption to that photo is more general, a
nameless café in Lausanne.  Could that also be the case with the
sketch?

There is an Hotel Lausanne in Paris, not now with a café.  Back then,
it was quite common to find hotels, restaurants and cafés that catered
the trade of other regions in Europe with their names, so there could
have been a Café Lausanne in several places where it no longer exists.