Here is a previously unknown menu photo that I found just a few weeks ago. The photograph looks very much like the one of Fisherman’s Wharf shown yesterday, but this photo is taken from a slightly different angle at a … Continue reading
Category Archives: Southern Pacific
Union Pacific issued at least three menus featuring San Francisco’s Nob Hill on the cover. This is one of the two that were among my missing menus. This particular menu was used on a 1963 “Caribou Country Special,” a special … Continue reading
Here are some blotters whose scans were contributed by the same reader who gave us the Southern Pacific menus a few days ago. The first one features a January, 1927 calendar, but from the Merry Christmas message it clearly was … Continue reading
The cover story in this issue of the Bulletin is the first train ride of two little girls who happened to be the daughters of a photographer–so there are plenty of photographs in the story. At the same time, the … Continue reading
Southern Pacific inaugurated the Cascade in 1927 in commemoration of the completion of the Natron Cutoff over the Oregon Cascade Mountains. This route was considerably shorter than the Siskiyou route the railroad had been using between Portland and the San … Continue reading
If the photo on this menu cover looks familiar, it’s because it was taken from a popular photo spot, the Vista House on Crown Point on Oregon’s Columbia River Highway. Union Pacific used at least … Continue reading
This attractive beach scene looks somewhat staged. For one thing it shows a man in a bathing suit holding a surf board. Apparently, people do surf Lake Tahoe, but only in windy conditions when a wet suit is a necessity. … Continue reading
This 1948 menu for an unspecified train suggests that the end of the war allowed Southern Pacific to offer a greater variety of meals. The table d’hôte side has six different entrées (compared with just three in a 1944 menu), … Continue reading
We’ve seen the Rock Island’s booklet about the Golden State. Here is Southern Pacific’s brochure about the same train. Perhaps it is a brochure rather than a 16-page booklet because SP was less enthusiastic about running the train. Click image … Continue reading
Though the front of this menu shows a field of poppies in California, the back has an extensive and humorous discussion of the state of Texas. This is unusual in this menu series, whose backs sometimes have beverage menus but … Continue reading