***THIS ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD***
Pair of Nickel and Glass Doors
Canadian Pacific Lines
1961-Built SS EMPRESS OF CANADA
Tourist Class Carleton Restaurant

Items from SS APOLLO (ex EMPRESS OF CANADA, MARDI GRAS, STAR OF TEXAS, OLYMPIC 2004, APOLLON)

The doors as they appeared on the ship in 1998. Photo and copyright Peter Knego 1998.

All Original Vintage CP Materials
Ornately Patterned Nickel Latticework, Steel Framework, Glass
Two Heavy Glass Doors, Each Measuring 77 Inches Tall by 27.5 Inches Wide
Price: $3,000.00 USD For Set Of Two
***THIS ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD***

A vintage postcard view of the EMPRESS OF CANADAs Tourist Class Carleton Restaurant showing the doors in the background. Peter Knego collection.

If these are the tourist class doors, imagine what the first class dining room doors must have looked like on the lovely 1961-built EMPRESS OF CANADA! Unfortunately, the first class dining room and its doors were removed during the ships MARDI GRAS incarnation and replaced with cabins.
There were two sets of these doors at the aft entrance to the tourist class Carleton Restaurant. With a handsome metal grill between the two pairs, these double doors enabled plenty of room on each side for diners going in either direction.
These heavy, solidly constructed and ornately festooned doors survived the batterings of a decade on the North Atlantic as well as two decades of rowdy party animal Carnival Caribbean cruise service. At some point, a Plexiglas panel was affixed to the doors to block visibility from the outside.