This 1967 Santa Fe brochure offers an American plan, of sorts, for rail travel: for just one fare, get transportation, all meals, and optional sleeping rooms. From Los Angeles to Chicago, the one-price round-trip fare on the Super Chief was … Continue reading
Valley of the Sun is a booster name for the Phoenix area. The sun part is right, but it never seemed like it was in a valley to me. In any case, this 28-page brochure is from 1950. In case … Continue reading
This 1941 flyer, which came as an insert to the Grand Canyon Outings booklet, describes lodging, activities, trips, and all-expense tours in Grand Canyon National Park. The flyer includes seven different one-, two-, and three-day tours of the Grand Canyon, … Continue reading
If the Rock Island’s claim of being the best road to Yellowstone was shaky, it at least had a viable claim to be a good route to California. This 1927 brochure advertises that people can take either the Golden State … Continue reading
This 1923 brochure makes the difficult case that people should take the Rock Island to Denver on their way to Yellowstone National Park. From Denver, travelers could take Rock Island “connections . . . to any of the four Yellowstone … Continue reading
This brochure was apparently aimed at Minnesotans and Wisconsinites, as it included schedules and fares for taking one of the Twin Cities Zephyrs from the Twin Cities to Chicago, and then the Denver Zephyr to Colorado or California Zephyr to … Continue reading
This brochure describes an 8-day (really, 7-day) tour from Chicago to Colorado. Two nights are spent aboard the Denver Zephyr, two nights in Rocky Mountain National Park, and three nights in Colorado Springs. This was an “independent tour” rather than … Continue reading
I call this a brochure, but it is probably really intended for use as a poster. It folds into eight panels like many brochures, but it is printed only on one side, like a poster. Sometimes, the passage that carries … Continue reading
Burlington offered Chicago residents three one- and two-day tours every weekend during the summer of 1964. One tour went 239 miles up the Mississippi River on the Twin Zephyrs to Prairie du Chien, where passengers had about 6-1/2 hours to … Continue reading
This six-panel brochure describes the escorted tour available to California during the 1965 tourist season. After leaving Chicago on the City of Los Angeles, the nineteen-day tour includes bus trips to Hoover Dam, Disneyland, and Beverly Hills and a train … Continue reading
