During the 1960s, UP appears to have issued two different calendars each year. One of the calendars included, as before, scenes from the Union Pacific West, while the other substituted two to four eastern photos for some of the western scenes. These usually included a fall colors scene from New England, a photo of an important building or monument in Washington DC, and perhaps a photo of New York or Chicago.
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This particular calendar includes the White House, Niagara Falls, the Chicago skyline, and a New England scene. I don’t have a western version of a 1960 calendar but presume one was made and will post it here if I find one.
I do have both western and eastern calendars for 1963 and 1964, and information about the western versions for 1961 and 1968. Most of mine — and most of the other ones I’ve seen — are the eastern versions, leading me to suspect that, for whatever reason, UP printed more of the eastern editions than the all-western versions.
Month | Photo | Menu? |
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December 1959 | Sun Valley Opera House | |
1960 | City of St. Louis | |
January | Nob Hill | Yes |
February | Hoover Dam | |
March | White House | |
April | Bear Lake | |
May | Niagara Falls | |
June | Sun Valley Horses | |
July | Mount Hood | |
August | Chapel of Transfiguration | Yes |
September | Chicago Skyline | |
October | Mount St. Helens | |
November | New England | |
December | Sun Valley Roundhouse | |
1961 | Freight Train | |
Photo descriptions | Dome Diner |
Two of the photos on this calendar, one of San Francisco’s Nob Hill and one of the Chapel of the Transfiguration in Grand Teton National Park, are also used on menus. Starting in 1960, no calendar photo would be a repeat of previous years, though some were taken from almost the same spots as other photos.