This menu was used on the same American Farm Bureau Convention trip as yesterday’s. The breakfast offered was simple: juice, cereal, roast beef hash or eggs, bread, and beverage. Click image to download a 1.0-MB PDF of this menu. We … Continue reading
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The cover photo on this menu appears to have been taken by William Henry Jackson in 1873, more than 70 years before the menu was issued in 1936. The Mount of the Holy Cross was so distinctive to look at … Continue reading
The scene shown on the cover of this 1935 menu is one of the most beautiful and colorful in all of Colorado, but the muddy black-and-white photo doesn’t come close to doing it justice. Taken from near the location of … Continue reading
The front cover of this menu shows one of Colorado’s smaller mountains (less than 13,300 feet above sea level), which is located almost due west of Denver. The back cover tells a story from an 1857 expedition by then-Captain Randolph … Continue reading
Happy new year! Today, I’m starting to compile a visual database of the menu series used by western railroads. I’ve already compiled one of Union Pacific menu series, so it seems natural to look at other railroads too. I’ll begin … Continue reading
Here are two menus, from 1951 and 1954, with the same front cover as one we’ve seen before on a 1956 menu. But the back of the 1951 menu has a photograph of the east- and westbound California Zephyrs meeting … Continue reading
Located south of Aspen, the Maroon Bells are sometimes called the most photographed scene in Colorado. They are so popular that the Forest Service has restricted access and imposed a number of fees to get to them. We’ve previously seen … Continue reading
The photograph of the California Zephyr in Glenwood Canyon is titled “Dream Come True.” The dream was not the California Zephyr itself but the dome cars it carried, as legend had it that such domes were first conceived by General … Continue reading
Yesterday we saw a Rio Grande menu with Colorado’s capitol building, and previously we saw one with Utah’s capitol. It made sense to have one menu with each capitol, but now I have menu with a different photo of Utah’s … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a menu in this series featuring the Utah state capitol, so it makes sense that the Rio Grande also issued one featuring the Colorado capitol. In 1908, the capitol dome was gilded with 200 ounces of gold … Continue reading