Acapulco hotel sign

The manager has personally passed all the water served here.

Athens Hotel

Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 daily.

Athens, Greece hotel

Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.

Austrian hotel catering to skiers

Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.

Bangkok dry cleaners

Drop your trousers here for best results.

Bangkok temple

It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.

Belgrade hotel elevator

To move the cabin, push botton for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.

Bucharest hotel lobby

The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.

Budapest zoo

Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.

Copenhagen airline ticket office

We take your bags and send them in all directions.

Czechoslovakian tourist agency

Take one of our horse-driven city tours--we guarantee no miscarriages.

Denmark in a Copenhagen airline ticket office

We take your bags and send them in all directions.

German/Austria a sign in a hotel catering to skiers

Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.

Germany in a Leipzig elevator

Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.

Hong Kong supermarket

For your convenience, we recommend courageous, efficient self-service.

Hong Kong tailor shop

Ladies may have a fit upstairs.

Istanbul hotel corridor sign

Please to evacuate in hall especially which is accompanied by rude noises.

Japanese hotel room

Please to bathe inside the tub.

Japanese hotel

You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.

Japanese information booklet about a hotel air conditioner

Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of war in your room, please control yourself.

Kyushi, Japan Detour sign

Stop: Drive Sideways.

Leipzig elevator

Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.

London department store

Bargain basement upstairs.

London office

After tea break staff should empty the teapot and stand upside down on the draining board.

Majorcan shop entrance

English well talking.

Majorcan shop entrance

Here speeching American.

Moscow hotel lobby across from a Russian Orthodox monastery

You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except Thursday.

Moscow hotel room door

If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.

Norwegian cocktail lounge

Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.

Paris dress shop

Dresses for street walking.

Paris hotel elevator

Please leave your values at the front desk.

Rhodes tailor shop

Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.

Roman doctor's office

Specialist in women and other diseases.

Rome laundry

Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.

Sweden: in the window of a Swedish furrier

Fur coats made for ladies from their own skin.

Swiss mountain inn

Special today -- no ice cream.

Tokyo hotel

Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not person to do such thing is please not to read this notice.

Tokyo shop

Our nylons cost more than common, but you’ll find they are best in the long run.

Vienna hotel

In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.

Yugoslavian Hotel

The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid. Turn to her straightaway.

Europa Hotel, in Sarajevo

you will find this message on every door: Guests should announce the abandonment of theirs rooms before 12 o'clock, emptying the room at the latest until 14 o'clock, for the use of the room before 5 at the arrival or after the 16 o'clock at the departure, will be billed as one night more.

Zurich hotel

Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.