Commander’s Dinner

We’ve seen this cover before on a 1955 Alaska steamship menu labeled “Farewell Dinner.” Since it is neither the introductory night nor the farewell dinner, the Commander’s dinner must have been for one of the intermediate nights of the four-night journey between Vancouver and Skagway.

Click image to download a 1.8-MB PDF of this menu.

The six-course meal is similar to yesterday’s, with hors d’oeuvres, a cold course such as iced fruit, chicken halibut cheeks and potatoes, spring chicken or ribs and sirloin of beef as the main entrées, plus dessert. Although this menu, like yesterday’s, has an autograph page, whoever saved these menus didn’t bother to get autographs after the first night.


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