This tri-fold menu features the welcome totem pole at Kingcombe Inlet — which is now apparently spelled Kingcome Inlet — a fjord between Vancouver and Prince Rupert. This totem was at the entrance to a village which once held potlatch ceremonies in defiance of a Canadian ban on such activities between 1885 and 1951.

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This 1967 photo shows the totem with most of its arms missing. I suspect it is completely gone now, but there are some pictographs in the area.

A menu with this cover is in the California State Railroad Museum collection. Both my menu and the CSRM menu were used for special tours, but I have other menus in the same series that were used as regular dining car menus.

Today’s menu, which was used on an American Express tour in July, 1937, offers diners a choice of steamed cod with anchovy sauce; boiled fowl with cauliflower cream sauce; or pineapple fritters. How can pineapple fritters be an entrée? The meal came with soup, vegetables, salad, dessert, and coffee. Tea drinkers must have had to pay extra.