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We’ve seen menus from the Royal Alexandra Hotel before, at least one of which featured an image of the hotel on the cover. Today’s menu looks more like one that might be found on a dining car with a photo … Continue reading
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This 1947 menu was used aboard a Canadian Pacific ship in “Triangle service,” meaning it shuttled from Seattle to Victoria to Vancouver and back to Seattle. We’ve previously seen two other menus in this series: a full-page photo with a … Continue reading
In the 1930s, Canadian Pacific transitioned from what I call the “non-white” menus to “white” menus. The non-white menus came in a variety of colors and formats, with cover illustrations sometimes filling the front cover but more often printed on … Continue reading
Whoever collected yesterday’s lunch menu must also have kept this menu from their return trip aboard the Empress of Scotland, which left almost six weeks after they arrived in England on the Empress of France. The Scot departed Southampton on … Continue reading
This lunch menu was used for third-class passengers on the Empress of France on July 23, 1930. The Empress had left Quebec City on July 16 and was scheduled to arrive in Southampton on July 23, so this may have … Continue reading
This is the last menu I have from the 1930 Rochester tour. It is a breakfast menu dated August 16. The menu cover doesn’t say so, but the picture shows Canadian Pacific’s Hotel Saskatchewan. This hotel survives today but is … Continue reading
Here are two more dining menus from the 1930 E.R. Rochester tour that went through the Canadian Rockies. The tour traveled from Vancouver to St. Paul and Chicago, stopping at Lake Louise and Banff on the way, so these menus … Continue reading
These two dining car menus were also used on the Rochester tour through the Canadian Rockies. The first is a dinner menu dated August 13, the same day as yesterday’s lunch menu. Like yesterday’s menu, it shows two people gazing … Continue reading
This fabulous cover was used on a menu for a tour guided by someone named E.R. Rochester. This was a lunch menu for August 13, 1930 and, even though the cover shows a scene from the Chateau Lake Louise, it … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1930 menu with this cover from the Chung collection. I’ve now added this one to my own collection. Click image to download a 2.8-MB PDF of this menu. Click here to download a 2.1-MB PDF of … Continue reading