Pueblo Market Dinner Menu

This menu for the San Francisco Chief features a painting of the Pueblo market at Oraibi, Arizona. The painter, John Hauser, worked a generation earlier than most of the painters represented on Santa Fe menus and calendars: born in Ohio around 1859, he died in 1913 and probably painted this before 1908, the year of his last visit to Arizona.

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The menu is dated 10-1-4, which I interpret to mean October 1, 1964. While not quite as fancy as a Super Chief menu, it does offer a charcoal broiled sirloin steak, with appetizer, soup, salad, potatoes, broccoli, bread, beverage, and dessert, for $5.25 (about $41 in today’s money). The same steak with French fries but no other side dishes is $4.55 ($36 today). The least-expensive full meals are shrimp de jonghe and chicken pot pie, which are $3.50 each (about $28 today) while an a la carte omelette with asparagus tips is $1.20 (about $7.50 today).


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