The long, narrow room is done up in a kind of opium-den chic, with tasselled curtains and satin sofas in raise-the-red-lantern red and black-pearl black.
Japanese lanterns, red walls and music from the 30's, 40's and 50's cast a casual glow over the delicious Asian-accented food.
Workers did an admirable job of creating an outdoorsy feel with bales of hay, red lanterns, red-checkered table cloths, saddles, lassos, and mariachis.
3. The world's first traffic lights, installed at an intersection in London in 1868, was actually a manually operated revolving lantern with red and green lights (no amber).
There are striking snow scenes like "Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa," where, at the entrance to the city's oldest Buddhist shrine, snow falls from a gray sky to sketch trees and temple buildings, with the scene dominated by an outsize lantern in red and black that swings from the top of the temple gate like a celestial body.
On the town's annual Illumination Night in 1880, Dr. Tucker decorated his house with 600 lanterns, and "red, green and blue Bengal lights," The Globe said.
Some worked as West Side cowboys, riding horses ahead of the trains, waving lanterns or red flags to shoo off pedestrians, horse carriages and later automobiles.
"Its flowers are like little pink lanterns, with blood-red seeds," Barnard said.
The cherry-red lantern that dangles from the doorway beckons passers-by.
The last rider in the standings earns the title of the Lanterne Rouge, or Red Lantern, a moniker that comes from the red lantern at the back of a train's caboose.
Look for a red lantern down a long, quiet lane.
