Courtesy of the New York Public Library, here is a dinner menu featuring Mesa Verde National Park on the cover. Compared with many postwar menus, this menu offers an incredible number of items. Click image to download a 0.9-MB PDF … Continue reading
This menu is dated January 10, less than four months before Amtrak took over, yet it shows the attention to detail and quality that would be expected for what was by then unquestionably the nation’s premiere train. The color cover … Continue reading
Fast forward from 1950 to 1970 for a breakfast menu dated October 1. Unlike yesterday’s lunch menu, this one doesn’t skimp on anything: a folder with a color cover (unlike the Texas Chief whose menus seemingly deserved only sepia tones) … Continue reading
Here’s another Super Chief menu from the New York Public Library, this one dated January 21, 1950. Though war rationing is long gone, this menu certainly doesn’t seem like it came from one of the nation’s premiere trains. But, cialis … Continue reading
Here, courtesy of the New York Public Library, are two dinner menus from the Super Chief. Both are dated June 11 (and the library helpfully added that they were from 1946), but they have different offerings. Click image to download … Continue reading
Today’s menu features Autumn Aspens, a painting by Fremont Ellis (misspelled Freemont on the menu cover). Born and raised in Montana, Ellis became a self-taught painter and photographer who was eventually settled in Santa Fe. He would photograph scenes and … Continue reading
The cover painting on this menu is called Acequia Madre or Deep Shadows and was painted by Theodore Van Soelen, an artist living in Teseque, New Mexico. Born in St. Paul in 1890, Van Soelen suffered from tuberculosis and moved … Continue reading
Today will be the first of three Santa Fe menus from the early 1960s. Unlike the Texas Chief menus shown previously, these menus have color covers, but don’t mention the name of a train on the inside. I’ve only seen … Continue reading
If, as I speculated a couple of days ago, differences between City of San Francisco and other City train menus in the late 1950s were due to differences between the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific commissaries, those differences did not … Continue reading
We’re going back in time, as today’s dinner menu is from January, 1955, as opposed to yesterday’s March, 1957 menu. The two use similar type faces and are about the same size, but are laid out differently: the 1955 one … Continue reading
