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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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.
The back cover of a Yosemite menu that was seemingly datedThis 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.