Crystal River 1948 Breakfast Menu

This menu cover features Mount Sopris behind the Crystal River, a 40-mile-long stream that feeds into the Roaring Fork River at Carbondale, which in turn feeds into the Colorado at Glenwood Springs. “In the romantic Rocky Mountains,” the back cover explains, “the bored urbanite finds solace from the mad metropolitan whirl, amid myriad scenes of unusurpassed [sic] splendor.” Scans of this menu were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader, who is not responsible for the spelling error.

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This particular menu was used for members of the National Association [of] Postal Supervisors on their way to a 1948 convention in Los Angeles via the Royal Gorge Route. The breakfast features fish, omelette, or ham or bacon with eggs with the usual accompaniments. Unusually for a tour menu, it is priced at $1.50, or about $16 in today’s money.


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