The Great Northern issued this series of postcards promoting its newly re-equipped Oriental Limited in 1924. We’ve already seen one of the cards in the series showing a P-2 locomotive pulling the train through the Washington Cascades. I copied all of these cards from the Great Northern advertising and publicity department archives in the Minnesota History Center.
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The first card shows a sleeping car made up for daytime use. The wall panels between the sections offered greater privacy than was found in some sleeping cars, which just had curtains between sections at night.
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One of the sleeping cars also had a small barber shop whose resident was supposed to be equally capable of cutting men’s as well as women’s hair. Judging from his own haircut, I’m not sure I’d trust my hair to him. According to the Oriental Limited’s train directory, a men’s haircut was 50 cents, but trimming a woman’s hair cost $1.
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The barber also acted as a valet pressing clothes so that people could look neat and unrumpled when they disembarked from the train at their destination. The charge for pressing a suit was $1.25 while a ladies skirt was 75 cents. Multiply by 12 to get today’s dollars.
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Here’s a view of the observation car with a crowd of people watching (or pretending to watch — they are probably models and the photo was likely taken in Great Northern’s St. Paul yard) the scenery go by from the rear platform. The rest of the cards show interior views of this car.
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The observation car had a ladies lounge with a maid who could provide manicures and other services. Manicures, shampoos, hairdressing, and facial massages were each 75 cents.
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A shower for women was connected to the ladies lounge while a shower room for men was connected to the barber shop. Showers cost 50 cents.
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Just a quarter of the observation car was devoted to the lounge, which had 14 parlor seats (nearly all of which are shown here) plus a fifteenth chair at a writing desk. Every day at 4 o’clock the lounge car staff served tea and “dainty cakes.” The barber shop and services in the observation car were available only to Pullman passengers.