Queen Victoria in Bryce Canyon Menu

Generically known as a hoodoo, this particular erosional remnant looks a little like Queen Victoria, so was named after her. The photo is a detachable postcard accompanying a dinner menu at Zion, Bryce, and Grand Canyon lodges. Apparently, by 1965 when this menu was issued, all three lodges served identical meals. Boredom was relieved by the fact that the meals rotated every night of the week.

Click image to download a 573-KB PDF of this menu.

Someone wrote a date on the menu; since this menu is for a “Wednesday dinner” and August 25, 1965, was indeed a Wednesday, that must be the date the menu was used. Dinner with all the trimmings consisted of a New York steak for $4 (about $32 today) or shrimp, chicken salad, pork chops, Swiss steak, or leg of lamb for $3 (about $24 today). The back of the menu advertises motor bus trips and saddle horse tours from Bryce Lodge, which may be where this particular menu was used.


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