The 1949 Detroit conventioneer who collected the menus and timetables either had time when laying over in Denver to take a trip down to Colorado Springs or picked up this brochure for future reference. The cog railway trip took 4-1/2 … Continue reading
In the last few days I’ve shown a City of Miami dinner menu with a plantation manor on the cover; a lunch menu with a Chicago waterfront image on the cover; and now a breakfast menu with a Florida beach … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen both of these menus from the Chung collection. Since then I’ve acquired copies of my own. These are both from 1924, while the ones from the Chung collection are from two or three years later. Click image … Continue reading
Being splendidly isolated from other buildings, the Banff Springs Hotel can be photographed from just about every angle. This photo shows it from the opposite as the photo on the 1948 menu shown here a few days ago. In this … Continue reading
Skiing was a new enough sport in 1941 that Canadian Pacific felt it was necessary to hyphenate the word, probably so people would know how to pronounce it. A previous CP menu, which I estimate to be from 1939 or … Continue reading
This menu shows the Oriental building at the Golden Gate Expo. The same building is shown in the daytime in the postcard below, which is still more yellow than the actual building. Click image to download a 530-KB PDF of … Continue reading
I’ve never heard of a brunch menu for a dining car, but these list themselves as “standard diner brunch menus” as if they were everyday occurrences. The small print says they were used on trains 457 & 458, which were … Continue reading
Peggy Cove (usually spelled Peggy’s Cove today) is a “tiny fishing inlet beloved of artists” in Nova Scotia, says the back of this menu. Judging from the 2005 photo below, it hasn’t changed much since Canadian Pacific pictured it on … Continue reading
Here are some geysers and other thermal features shown on Northern Pacific’s Acmegraph postcards. Click image to download a 274-KB PDF of this postcard. First is Grotto Geyser, actually a group of four different geysers. They are located not far … Continue reading
The 1948-1949 Chicago Railroad Fair was the last great rail fair, but it’s most enduring legacy is that it was the inspiration for Disneyland. Some great photos of the fair are on Stuff from the Park, a web site about … Continue reading
