1953 Challenger Inn Lunch Menu

This menu has the same cover as the one from a couple of days ago. Inside, however, it is dated May 11, 1953, five months after the previous ones. It still has the same budget-menu format, but the prices have gone up.


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In other words, in today’s dollars, they are all about a dollar more than on the December menus. This is the last budget-priced menu in my collection, which suggests that the experiment, if it was one, didn’t work out, either because the railroad was losing too much money or because the first-class passengers who typically patronized dining cars wanted something a little higher class.


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  1. That’s one of the few menus that I can’t anything I’d eat from the fixed price meals. I can’t imagine the the Pullman passengers weren’t up in arms about this. It’s not a bad concept for the club car or snack bar, and that’s where the UP should have tried it. The ironic thing is that it’s showing a “budget” menu with a picture of about the least “budget” place you could go, Sun Valley.

    Jim

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