1951 Boys Town Breakfast Menu

This menu was on my 2015 missing menus list. In fact, judging from some cover stains (which I Photoshopped out for the PDF), this appears to be the very same menu I saw on ebay in 2014. Union Pacific must not have printed many that used this cover photo. Union Pacific is headquartered in Nebraska, but so far we’ve only seen four color photo menus featuring that state: this one plus three colleges.


Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF of this menu.

Inside is a very complete breakfast menu, featuring ten full meals, eleven juices or fruits, eleven cereals, and a lengthy list of a la carte items. The menu headers are the familiar Coronet typeface, but the name “Los Angeles Limited” has few special twists that make it appear to be custom made for the train. These include the capital A, two different capital Ls, and lower case g. Plus, unlike the Coronet typeface which seems similar to this one, all of the letters actually join up.


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