Mardis Gras Menu

Here’s another in the series of Sunset Limited menus used by the Southern Pacific in the early 1960s. This menu is from the Ira Silverman menu collection at Northwestern University, and I’m including it here so I can display as complete a collection from this series as possible.

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This 1962 dinner menu offered full meals built around fish, pork chops, breast of capon, and charcoal broiled sirloin steak for $4.00 to $5.75 ($36 to $49 in today’s money); a seafood platter with fish, oysters, scallops, shrimp, and French fries for $2.50 ($21 today); and various a la carte items including lamb chops.


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