These menus aren’t from my collection, but they fill out the series of menus whose front covers have silhouettes showing some scene or icon along Southern Pacific lines. The first page of the menus is 5 inches wide while the second is 5-1/2 inches, allowing a colored strip with the name of the meal to appear when folded and unfolded. All three menus shown here are for lunch.
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The first menu shows a columned house with a magnolia flower in the foreground, undoubtedly meant to represent a Southern manor estate or plantation. Today this might be considered in poor taste but in the 1930s, the era of Gone with the Wind, it was considered the height of luxury. This menu is from the New York Public Library collection.
The menu offers fillet of fish, spaghetti and sausage, veal cutlets, and luncheon steak on both the a la carte and table d’hôte side. Table d’hôte added potatoes, succotash, bread, dessert, and beverage. For some reason, the price increment to go from a la carte to table d’hôte was 20¢ for the spaghetti, 15¢ for the veal and steak, but just 5¢ for the fish. I wonder if anyone complained about that.
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Although this is from the same year as the previous menu, prices are distinctly higher: the most expensive meal on the plantation menu is 90¢, while on this one it is $1.10 and an a la carte sirloin steak is $1.25. This could be because the waterfall menu was used on a higher class of train.
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The third menu, which like the first is from the New York Public Library, has a Native American on the cover who I suspect is meant to represent one of the Apache tribes who lived near Southern Pacific tracks in Arizona and New Mexico. When this menu was issued in 1938, SP had a train called the Apache that followed the Golden State route from Los Angeles to Chicago.
Although just a year after the previous menus, this one has even higher prices, with the most expensive meal being $1.35 and an a la carte sirloin steak costing $1.50. This is despite the fact that there was actually a small amount of deflation between 1937 and 1938.