If the color covers of these booklets advertising Union Pacific streamliners are meant to have local significance, it’s hard to imagine what this grey cover denotes unless it is the clouds and fog that are often found covering San Francisco … Continue reading
Category Archives: City of San Francisco
We’ve seen this cover before on a 1960 dinner menu. The menu side is identical to yesterday’s, complete with the elegant cyan background. Curiously, the City of Portland menus call the secondary restaurant a “cafe-lounge” (and include a list of … Continue reading
This menu uses the exact same photo that was used in a 1947 menu but cropped to fit on the front cover rather than wrap around to the back, with the result that one of the towers of the bridge … Continue reading
At first glance, this menu cover has the same photo as one we’ve seen from 1958. But a closer look reveals that the photos are different and were taken some years apart. This photo is zoomed out a bit to … Continue reading
This cover was on last year’s list of missing menus, and naturally was used on the City of San Francisco. Inside, the menu uses a combination of fonts we’ve only seen once before. There are certain properties that are special … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s menu, the color photo on this one doesn’t wrap around to the back cover. Even more peculiar, we’ve seen very same photo in a wrap-around version on menus from 1947 and 1950. The photo captions are identical, meaning … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover photo before in a 1958 edition. Like yesterday’s, this one was issued by the Milwaukee Road commissary in February, 1957. During the past few years there has been a steady increase in demand for alternative medicines … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover photo before in a 1951 edition. The menu side of this one was issued February, 1957, with a reference to “CMStP&P,” suggesting that the meals were provided by the Milwaukee Road commissary. Many of the items … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before in Lee Paper Company’s book showing off Corinthian paper by reprinting 18 Union Pacific menu covers. In this case, the cover was used as as City of San Francisco dinner menu. Click image to … Continue reading
Union Pacific handed out this eight-page “souvenir album” to passengers on the last runs of its daily trains before Amtrak took over, April 30, 1971. A letter from UP CEO J.C. Kenefick offers a “reluctant goodbye to that small but … Continue reading