City of St. Louis 1952 Dinner Menu

We’ve already seen a 1959 dinner menu with this same cover. Both menus were for the City of St. Louis and I suspect this cover was only used for that train.


Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF of this menu.

The 1959 menu offered UP’s charcoal-broiled sirloin steak dinner for $4.50 plus three other entrées and a mysterious “Chef’s Special Plate Dinner (Your Steward or Waiter will advise items the Chef has prepared for you.)” This one has four main entrées but the menu itself doesn’t mention the steak dinner. Instead, that is described on an insert paper clipped into the menu. The price in 1952 was the same as in 1959.

This menu also comes with a paper-clipped ad for “Our July Attraction: Fresh-caught Brook Trout,” with a picture of the trout on a bed of French fries. I love trout but the picture doesn’t look very appealing to me. The trout isn’t actually mentioned in the menu itself (which is dated May, not July), so presumably the waiter would have informed diners of the price.


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