Yosemite Park 1946 Lunch Menu

If we can believe the printer’s code of 2-25-46, this is one of the last black-and-white menus before UP introduced its color photo menu series. We’ve seen this cover before, but the back cover is different and lends a little credibility to the date.

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The back cover of a Yosemite menu that was seemingly dated 1938 shows the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while it was still under construction (with a supplementary note that it opened in 1936). The back cover of a Yosemite menu apparently dated 1940 advertised the Golden Gate Exposition, which took place in 1939 and 1940.

This one shows the completed bridge, simply noting that it is the “largest in the world.” Otherwise, the back-cover text — which is about Yosemite, not the bridge — is nearly identical to that of the 1938 menu. In any case, everything tends to support the idea that this menu, scans for which were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader, was used in 1946.


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