Grand Canyon Menu in the Moderne Series

A Streamliner Memories reader contributed scans of this 1935 breakfast menu. It has the same hand-colored front-cover photo as this 1930 menu in the Art Nouveau style. The text on the back is almost identical to the text on the 1930 menu.

Click image to download a 2.5-MB PDF of this menu.

However, the back cover photo is different for good reason: the 1930 menu shows Union Pacific’s Grand Canyon Lodge, which burned in 1932 and (as shown in the post about the 1930 menu) looked quite a bit different after it was rebuilt. Union Pacific replaced that photo with a “natural color photograph” of the canyon, probably made using the Autochrome process. Kodachrome had been released in 1935, but not in time for this menu.


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