In the 1950s, Fred Harvey operated close to 20 restaurants in its hotels, train stations, and other buildings ranging from Cleveland to Los Angeles. This is one of a series of nine menus “featuring some of
the more prominent Fred Harvey hotels, restaurants and sightseeing tours.” These menus were used in many of the restaurants to cross-publicize Fred Harvey facilities, but none were used in Santa Fe dining cars.

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This menu features the Grand Canyon, where Fred Harvey operations “are among the largest enterprises of the company.” These included El Tovar Hotel, Bright Angel Lodge, Hopi House, the Watchtower, Hermit’s Rest, and Phantom Ranch. I believe that all of these offered food services except for Hopi House and the Watchtower.

The other eight menus in the series featured Albuquerque’s Alvarado Hotel; the Harlequin Room in Chicago’s Palmolive Building; Santa Fe’s La Fonda Hotel; Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal; the Old Spinning Wheel in Hinsdale, Illinois; Petrified Forest National Monument; and the Westport Room in Kansas City Union Station. Today’s dinner menu was used in the Alvarado and offered eight entrées plus a variety of char broiled steaks, various soups, appetizers, sandwiches, and salads, a few Mexican items, and a wide range of desserts. Multiply prices by 11 to get today’s dollars.