This booklet is dated 1951, but the B&O had issued similar booklets many times in the past. One is mentioned in the railroad’s 1933 Century of Progress booklet. Click image to download a 15.7-MB PDF of this booklet. Some – … Continue reading
This 24-page booklet is undated, but it refers to the “new” San Antonio Coliseum. Since the coliseum opened in October, 1949, I’m guessing the booklet was issued in 1950, when the population of San Antonio’s urban area was about 450,000, … Continue reading
The colorful cover of this 68-page guide shows the Royal Gorge, Moffat Tunnel, and Colorado Rockies juxtaposed with Mexico, ocean beaches, and a major city with skyscrapers too numerous to be Denver in the 1930s. The equally colorful map on … Continue reading
In the late nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century, the Rio Grande heavily advertised the “Narrow Gauge Circle,” (though by 1915 parts were standard gauge). This consisted of a loop starting in Pueblo, going south to Alamosa and … Continue reading
This booklet is missing its cover and I usually don’t post items that are less than complete. But the Colorado Midland is a special railroad that deserves a little attention. While the Denver and Rio Grande headed across the Rock … Continue reading
Burlington’s 1947 dude ranch booklet, shown here last week, has a very different cover from this one, but inside they are almost identical. Most of the text and pictures are the same, so much so that it is a surprise … Continue reading
Burlington’s pre-war dude ranch booklet focused on ranches around Cody, Wyoming. This one not only lists 50 ranches in that area (twice as many as the 1931 booklet), it also includes more than 30 ranches in Colorado, more than a … Continue reading
The Mt. Rushmore memorial was still under construction when the photographs for this booklet were taken. The faces of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln were done, but the sculptor had barely begun Roosevelt’s face. He completed it before he died in … Continue reading
After the pastels used on the covers of the previous several tour books, the bright orange and purple on the 1937 edition is startling, but it must have been highly visible on travel agency shelves. The number of tours is … Continue reading
I haven’t seen a 1933 escorted tour booklet yet, but we know from the 1934 edition that the format was reduced (again) to 6″x9″, though the page count remained the same at 68 pages (including covers). The 1935 version uses … Continue reading
