In 1931, travelers visiting southern Utah parks on one of Union Pacific’s all-inclusive tours were offered meals from these small (4-1/3″ x 5-3/4″) menus with a photo on the front. The first menu shows Union Pacific’s lodge in Zion National Park. Though the scene is spectacular, somehow a photo like this never made it onto the cover of a post-war Union Pacific color photo menu.
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This lunch menu offers baked ham, barbecued lamb, cold sardines and tomatoes, or cold prime rib potato salad, all served with soup, vegetables, salad, bread, dessert, and beverage. The cold meals probably were welcomed in the southern Utah midday heat at a time before air conditioning.
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This dinner menu offers broiled club steak, braised sweetbreads, or cold roast lamb with a sea food cocktail, soup, appetizer, vegetables, salad, rolls, dessert, and beverage. Again, diners had a choice of hot or cold entrées, though in the evening a cold roast lamb would probably be less attractive than at midday.
We’ve previously seen a menu like this from 1936 on which the flip side was blank. UP apparently stopped printing photos on these menus in about 1934.