First Anniversary Menu

Great Northern kept its media campaign going when the 1924 Oriental Limited reached its first anniversary. This elaborate menu cover encloses a standard two-page menu contained within six pages of text and photos advertising the train.

Click image to download a 2.5-MB PDF of this menu.

It isn’t clear whether this menu was used for a special trains of, say, travel writers or agents, or if it was used as a standard menu on board the train itself. Though the latter seems unlikely, the menu in the centerfold is pretty standard, offering Great Northern’s chicken pot pie (which was a specialty of its dining cars) or a vegetable or fish dinner for 75 cents (about $11 today) or a sirloin steak, among other a la carte items, for $1.35 (about $19 today).


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