We’ve previously seen booklets advertising Canadian Pacific’s chain of hotels from 1947, 1949, and 1957. This one is from 1937. Click image to download a 4.7-MB PDF of this 24-page booklet. The postwar booklets all list the hotels in geographic … Continue reading
The Banff Springs Hotel is an incredible place. It’s chateau-style architecture would look completely out of place in a U.S. national park, but somehow it fits in Canada’s Rocky Mountain National Park (later called Banff). This booklet describes many of … Continue reading
After the Grand Canyon, California must have been Santa Fe’s leading tourist destination, yet we’ve previously seen only one Santa Fe booklet dedicated to that state, from 1938. This one is from two years later, and other than the cover … Continue reading
This book is a lot like yesterday’s except that it has been cut from 32 to 24 pages and, like a 1931 booklet presented here a few days ago, is for travel east from California rather than to California. The … Continue reading
The first page of this booklet explains the Southern Pacific’s four-great-routes bargain: Instead of going to Los Angeles or San Francisco on one route and back on the same route, go to one, then take the train to the other, … Continue reading
In keeping with its “four great routes” marketing theme, the Southern Pacific argued that the way to see the Northwest was to take one of its routes in one direction or another. SP only approached the Northwest from the south, … Continue reading
This booklet 34 possible rail tours around the western United States (including a few to Mexico), most of which start at Chicago, New Orleans, or St. Louis. Actually, there are many more than 34 as most of the tours come … Continue reading
As previously noted here, the San Francisco Overland Limited was one of several Chicago-California trains that were completely re-equipped and put on 63- rather than 68-hour schedules in November, 1926. Issued just two months later, this brochure advertises this new … Continue reading
This booklet aimed to help “all who are seeking suitable stopping places during their summer vacations” by briefly describing about 200 hotels, resorts, camps, and other destinations throughout California, including a few around Crater and Klamath lakes in Oregon. These … Continue reading
Southern Pacific commissioned a San Francisco writer named H.K. Reynolds to spend three weeks traveling in Mexico and report on his journey. Due to the language barrier, most Americans considered Mexico a somewhat mysterious place. SP hoped to break down … Continue reading
