If Union Pacific put bears on its breakfast menu and Kaibab squirrels on its lunch menus, this menu suggests that it put rabbits on its dinner menus. Although this menu is marked “dinner” and yesterday’s was marked “lunch,” the actual … Continue reading
Category Archives: Union Pacific
We’ve seen a squirrel lunch menu before dated 1957. This one is undated, but (unlike the 1957 version) uses the UP Overland Route logo, so must be from the 1930s. It type of has exactly the same chiropractor, likelihood is … Continue reading
We’ve seen the cover of this children’s menu before, and on the PDF page I dated that one to 1933. I based that date on the Union Pacific’s web page saying that it last used the “Overland Route” logo in … Continue reading
Last September, I posted the covers of nine Union Pacific color wrap-around menus that I knew to be missing from my collection. Except for Boy’s Town, I’ve since added all of those missing menus to my collection and posted them … Continue reading
Although Union Pacific “rebooted” its color wrap-around menu series with new photographs in 1970, it continued to use the Howard Fogg centennial menus. This menu is dated April, 1971, the last month before Amtrak took over. Although Fogg did sixteen … Continue reading
As a streamliner and dome-car fan, this is naturally my favorite of Howard Fogg’s sixteen UP centennial paintings. The painting shows the City of Los Angeles heading west between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Any new government will be keen … Continue reading
We’ve seen these three menu covers before, but not with exactly the same inner menus. I’m including all three in one post so we can get to other “new” things sooner. Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
This menu features two San Francisco landmarks, Fisherman’s Wharf and Coit Tower, in one photo. The menu is marked for the City of Portland, which is unusual because nearly all menus with pictures of San Francisco were used on the … Continue reading
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
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