This menu was used on the Florida Special, a winter-only, all-Pullman train that connected New York City with Miami. With a name dating back to the nineteenth century, the train was Dieselized in 1940, streamlined in 1949, and remained popular up to Amtrak.
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blue-and-yellow mackaw, which WIkipedia says is a native of South America. It notes that “small breeding population descended from introduced birds . . . has inhabited Miami-Dade County, Florida, since the mid-1980s.” Perhaps those were birds left over after ACL photo shoots.
The cover photo is attractive but obviously staged. The bird on the back of the wicker chair appears to be aThe menu offers full breakfasts with seven different entrées priced from $1.65 to $2.35. The menu has a date code of “662,” which I interpret to mean February, 1966. Based on that, multiply prices by 8 to get today’s dollars.