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 Sun Valley Opera House, Hoover Dam, Sun Valley skiers, and the Mormon Temple. But others offer new views: Los Angeles city hall with the Union Station patio in the foreground; Mt. Carmel Highway in Zion Park; a view of the Tetons with their shapes mimicked by aspen trees in the foreground; and Wyoming’s Snowy Range.
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Union Pacific’s 16-page calendars were really printed on four sheets, but I’ve departed from my usual practice of presenting pieces exactly as they are. Instead, I’ve presented them in roughly calendric order. But they can be rearranged to be like the originals as follows: Continue reading