Las Vegas Holiday Special

We’ve seen this cover photo before on a 1970 menu. The difference between that cover and this one from 1965 is that this one mentions that Union Pacific ran a train between Los Angeles and Las Vegas called the Las Vegas Holiday Special. This train ran between 1961 (replacing the ill-fated City of Las Vegas) and 1968 and made (as the menu notes) a “daytime round trip between Los Angeles and Las Vegas daily during the summer and holiday seasons and week-end service at other times.”


Click image to download a 1.6-MB PDF of this menu.

This menu wasn’t used on that train, however. Instead, it was a special train for representatives of the American National Insurance Company going to the company’s annual convention in Las Vegas. Unusually for Union Pacific menus, the menu itself is in a typewriter font but offers standard breakfast fare.


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