Post #507520 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 8:23 PM

Here's another napkin from the Pago Pago in Portland:

Compare to the narrower napkin in Mimi's collection:

I wonder if the half-napkin size was part of the war-time effort to conserve paper. So that even the cocktail-drinker felt they were doing their part.

Here's my only evidence:

I've got several of these half-napkins in my collection and they all seem to be made out of ultra-thin, inferior paper that wouldn't stop a ring-mark on a bar if they tried.