For lunch on January 6, Wolverine Club members ordered from this menu featuring the University of Colorado on its cover. We’ve seen this cover before, of course, but the menu on the inside is different as the previous one was … Continue reading
Category Archives: Los Angeles Limited
Breakfast on the Los Angeles Limited on January 6, 1951, featured this menu showing the University of Nebraska’s ivy-covered administration building. Like menus from the previous two days, this one is imprinted for members of the Wolverine Club returning home … Continue reading
Members of the Wolverine Club enjoyed dinner on the Los Angeles Limited using this menu on January 5, 1951. The sandstone building on the cover was the University of Wyoming’s Liberal Arts Building, now the Arts and Sciences Building, and … Continue reading
It’s hard to imagine today that the academically inclined University of California at Berkeley was once a football powerhouse, having rostered undefeated teams from 1920 through 1924 and appearing in three consecutive Rose Bowls from 1949 through 1951. Despite having … Continue reading
The image of the Great White Throne on the cover of this menu is from almost exactly the same location as earlier menus in the art nouveau series. But the previous images were hand-colored versions of black-and-white photos, while this … Continue reading
As noted yesterday, after 1932, Union Pacific dropped the word “system” from its logo, so these blotters date from 1933 or later. “The Overland Route” was removed from the logo in 1942, so these blotters from the Dale Hastin collection … Continue reading
Dated January 21, 1948, and marked on the inside for the Los Angeles Limited, which then carried the prestigious numbers 1 and 2, this is the earliest color-cover menu I have seen featuring Sun Valley. The image shows a lone … Continue reading
Union Pacific had menu covers for universities in every state that it served, including UC Berkeley, Kansas State College, Montana State University, University of Washington, and University of Wyoming. This one for the University of Denver is the only one … Continue reading
This menu features a brilliant, hand-colored photo of the Grand Canyon on the front cover, and a black-and-white photo of the “new Union Pacific Grand Canyon Lodge” on the back. New was right: the lodge was barely completed in time … Continue reading
This Los Angeles Limited menu resembles other LA Limited menus from that time period. But it is unusual for a Union Pacific menu from any time period in that it identifies the photographer who took the cover photo–and the photograph … Continue reading