Union Pacific 1954 Desk Calendar

Union Pacific probably starting publishing these little (about 5-2/3″ by 7-1/2″) desk calendars in the late 1940s and continued at least through the mid-1950s. This particular card urges people to “stay in hotels,” possibly because hotels were associated with train travel while motels were associated with auto travel.


Click image to download a 409-KB PDF of this desk calendar.

While this is the only desk calendar in my collection, below is one from 1949 in which the months are arranged around a tiny map of the Union Pacific system.



Here is one from 1952 that uses the same basic format.

Here is an unusual version showing July 1953 through June 1954 that uses the “stay in hotels” format.


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