1961 Golden Gate Bridge Dinner Menu

This menu uses the same photo as yesterday’s, but it lacks the extra flap that serves only to give the name of the train. Instead, “Domeliner City of Los Angeles appears at the top of page 2. This is one of the few menus with a San Francisco image that was used on a train other than the City of San Francisco or San Francisco Overland.


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Inside is the domeliner table d’hôte-only menu, featuring trout, chicken, ham, prime rib, a deluxe salad bowl, and of course the charcoal-grilled sirloin steak. At $5 (about $42 today), UP charged a real premium for the steak dinner, as the others are mostly in the $3 to $4 range ($4.25 for the prime rib). Yet the steak is 50 cents less than it was in yesterday’s 1960 menu, so even the railroads may have decided that $5.50 was too much.


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