We’ve previously seen this photo of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle on a City of Portland dinner menu. This dinner menu was for the City of Los Angeles. Both are from 1971, and the meal selections are only a little different: steak, salmon, chicken, and ham on this menu; steak, trout, turkey, and veal on the City of Portland menu.
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Starting as early as 1947, Union Pacific used a font called Coronet to decorate its menus. Designed in 1937, this font will be familiar to I Love Lucy fans as it was used in the opening and closing credits of that show–but Union Pacific used it first. At least in the late 1960s through 1971, City of Portland menus used it just for the name of the train, but City of Los Angeles menus also used it for the list of table d’hôte meals, perhaps underscoring that train’s status as UP’s premiere domeliner.