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The 1962 calendar opens with a photograph in Chicago. For Union Pacific, which only went as far east as Omaha in 1962 — this was probably an eastern scene, as was a photo of a Midwestern farm. I’ll have to … Continue reading
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The opening photo of the 1961 calendar hints at a broader range of photographs than were used in the 1950s. Inside, photos of Death Valley, the Sun Valley Roundhouse, and the three eastern photos were quite unlike any that had … Continue reading
During the 1960s, UP appears to have issued two different calendars each year. One of the calendars included, as before, scenes from the Union Pacific West, while the other substituted two to four eastern photos for some of the western … Continue reading
Seven of the sixteen photos on the 1959 calendar also found their way onto menu covers, the most of any year after 1950. The October picture of Mount Hood had also been used on the November 1953 calendar; the December … Continue reading
UP’s 1958 calendar opens with the Willmarth map that had previously been used on the 1951 calendar. Photos of the Sun Valley ice rink and Grand Canyon were also used on menu covers. Click image to download a 21.8-MB PDF … Continue reading
At least four of the photos on the 1957 calendar were also used on menus starting with the opening page showing the domeliner City of Portland in the Columbia River Gorge. As I noted on the page presenting that menu, … Continue reading
Four photos in the 1956 calendar were also used on menus, and one of those — the December photo of Sun Valley skiers — was repeated on the December 1959 calendar. Some of the photos are trite: Dream Lake, the … Continue reading
Four photos on the 1955 calendar were also used on menus, more than the previous two years combined. Two of those photos had previously been used on a UP calendar: May’s Bryce Canyon (May, 1951) and August’s Lake Marie (October, … Continue reading
Only two photos in the 1954 calendar were also used on menus (one of which also appeared on the 1950 calendar), but many more seem familiar because they are slightly different versions of scenes depicted on so many other calendars. … Continue reading
Union Pacific probably starting publishing these little (about 5-2/3″ by 7-1/2″) desk calendars in the late 1940s and continued at least through the mid-1950s. This particular card urges people to “stay in hotels,” possibly because hotels were associated with train … Continue reading