After the railroad’s 1969 centennial, Union Pacific issued a menu cover featuring the view from Point Imperial on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. This pre-centennial menu has a similar view, but with people in the foreground. The graphic … Continue reading
This menu is undated, but the prices of the deluxe dinner salad and sirloin steak dinner are exactly the same as … Continue reading
The City of Los Angeles menu is dated November, 1964 and is the same size as UP’s color-photo menus. Inside, the menu has the same table d’hôte-only format as some other dinner menus of the late 1950s and early 1960s. … Continue reading
In 1971, Union Pacific returned to the wrap-around color photo covers with many new photos, some of which we have seen before: Disneyland, Grand Canyon, the Mormon Temple, and Zion. Here’s another new one from Yellowstone showing a geyser that … Continue reading
As we’ve seen before, in 1969 Union Pacific departed from the wrap-around color photo menus in order to celebrate its centennial with Howard Fogg paintings. Here are two menus with the same cover, showing construction of a bridge across the … Continue reading
This cover photo looks very similar to the one on yesterday’s menu. But Pacific Grove is more than 350 miles north of Laguna Beach; the former being a little south of San Jose while the latter is a little south … Continue reading
This City of Los Angeles menu has a beautiful cover photo showing an ocean-front garden in Southern California. Despite Google maps, I haven’t succeeded in finding the exact location of the photo, but I suspect it is in the northern … Continue reading
This view of MacArthur Park is from the opposite direction of the one on the cover of the 1955 menu presented here a couple of weeks ago. Cars shown on the 1955 menu were from the 1930s and 1940s; cars … Continue reading
Issued in October, 1965, for the City of Los Angeles, this lunch menu–unlike some of the dinner menus–still had an extensive a la carte side along with five complete meals (though not table d’hôte) on the other side. The meals … Continue reading
Los Angeles’ iconic City Hall appears on the cover of this menu, which was used on trains 103 & 104, the City of Los Angeles. The menu is dated December 15, 1950, but it must have been used in February, … Continue reading
