Here’s another example of a la carte tours as opposed to table d’hôte. Great Northern advertises “a grand circle tour of the Pacific Northwest and California,” but it really isn’t a tour so much as a design-your-own-vacation package listing rail … Continue reading
The dams it describes are anything but tiny, but this brochure is another in Great Northern’s series of what I call tiny brochures. Dated 1960, this one features Montana’s Hungry Horse Dam on the cover, and Grand Coulee, Chief Joseph, … Continue reading
For 1959, the Glacier Park Company issued a brochure that, at first glance, was almost identical to the 1958 edition. However, a close look reveals that, where the 1958 brochure opens to about 9″x24″, this one is just 9″x20″, meaning … Continue reading
The 32-page booklets that GN used to advertise Glacier as recently as 1949 have, less than a decade later, been replaced by this three-panel brochure, the equivalent of six pages. (Or perhaps there was also a 32-page booklet in 1958 … Continue reading
Based on the colors and size, the brochure looks like a companion to Great Northern’s Alaska cruises brochure. But that one dates to 1938 while this Northwest brochure is dated eighteen years later, so the colors are simply a coincidence … Continue reading
This little brochure advertises, without too many details, cruises to “strange Alaska.” After a steamship ride from Seattle, tours were apparently offered on at least seven routes. “Golden Belt Line Tours” went from Seward to Fairbanks to Cordova. “Yukon River … Continue reading
This 52-page brochure is more than twice the length of a 1929 brochure with the same name. Most of the contents of the 1929 brochure can be found in this earlier edition, with some major additions of course. Click image … Continue reading
Printed on ordinary (if slightly off-white) legal-sized (8-1/2″x14″) paper, this 1968 poster-brochure advertised a 15-day “Bonanza” tour to California and Las Vegas on one side and an 8-day “Paradise” tour to Colorado on the other. These tours were dramatically stripped … Continue reading
For 1964, instead of relying on tour buses to Rocky Mountain Park and other Colorado destinations, Burlington offered people a Hertz rental car for a week. While people were free to drive the car at whatever speed they wanted, they … Continue reading
For only $34 (about $200 today), the Burlington offered Chicagoans a two-day tour to Nauvoo, Illinois (an early Mormon settlement) and Hannibal, Missouri (boyhood home of Mark Twain). The weekend tours went via the Nebraska Zephyr to Burlington, bus to … Continue reading
