This menu has separate pages for dinner on June 21, 1929; breakfast, lunch, and dinner on June 22; and breakfast for June 23. It doesn’t say where members of the New Jersey Kiwanis were going, but that isn’t enough meals … Continue reading
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A poem on the back of this children’s menu says the front portrays a “holdup bear” because his job is to “hold up the bill of fare.” The poem continues by promising to remember the children when they go to … Continue reading
We’ve seen a die-cut image of an apple used by the Northern Pacific as a breakfast menu. This one isn’t die-cut, but the words “Just a Bite for Lunch” on the front and the NP logo on the back are … Continue reading
This 1909 booklet was apparently written to entice eastern visitors to the San Diego and San Francisco fairs that celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal to make their return trips via the Northern Pacific rather than the more direct … Continue reading
The front cover of this menu just has NP logos, but the back cover has several black-and-white photos of Yellowstone National Park. Inside, an a la carte menu labeled “Supper” is on the left side while right side is a … Continue reading
Northern Pacific’s last calendar before the BN merger featured a painting of General Electric U33C locomotives, a more advanced and higher-powered version of the U25C shown on the 1967 calendar. This is one of the big (26″x42″) calendars, so it … Continue reading
I have both the 20″x26″ and 26″x42″ versions of the 1968 calendar and they have the same differences from one another as the 1966 calendars: the photos are cropped differently and the typefaces used on the smaller calendar are wider … Continue reading
For 1967, Northern Pacific’s calendar featured a painting commissioned by General Electric showing off its U25C locomotive, a six-axle version of the 2500-horsepower U25B. As an advertisement for the locomotive, it was rather late, as the lead locomotive shown in … Continue reading
The ratio of 42 inches to 26 inches is much bigger than the ratio of 26 inches to 20 inches. In today’s digital world, NP’s (and GN’s) smaller calendars would be exact duplicates in miniature of the big calendars, which … Continue reading
Having featured the Seattle World’s Fair on its 1962 calendar, the company’s sort-of centennial on its 1963 calendar, and the North Coast Limited in 1964, NP no doubt felt it was time to get back to the railway’s bread and … Continue reading