This menu featuring a color photo of the Royal York Hotel was used on board the Empress of Scotland in May, 1957. While the cover resembles other menu covers we have seen, most of those were colorized versions of a black-and-white photo that was also used on a menu cover at one time. That photo was taken from a slightly different angle — approximately the eighth floor instead of the fifth floor — and had much older automobiles and a streetcar. Although this menu was used in 1957, the autos in the photo look like they are from no later than around 1953.
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This menu is from the University of British Columbia’s Chung collection and can be found on UBC’s web site. Unlike yesterday’s menus, it is the same size as many Canadian Pacific dining car menus. As near as I can tell, CP dining cars stopped using menus with the Bodoni typeface in the late 1940s, but it is possible that this photo was used on a dining car menu, likely with the caption in another typeface.