The Chung collection menus today feature impressive paintings of sports activities in the Banff area. Two of them were painted by the same artist and could be considered the beginnings of a series. The other I’m including because it is … Continue reading
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Today we have four more menus from the Chung collection that don’t appear to be a part of any series. The last two, however, do resemble one another, but it is probably a coincidence rather than by design. Click image … Continue reading
Today we have several nice menus from the Chung collection that don’t seem to be a part of any series. These are all breakfast menus dated 1926 and most of the cover illustrations are very attractive. Click image to download … Continue reading
We start today with what may be the oldest menu in the Chung collection, one showing “Canadian National Park.” Banff National Park was created in 1885 and, according to Wikipedia, was originally called Rocky Mountains National Park. But this dining … Continue reading
Yesterday, I suggested that CN’s tall, narrow menus were used in its buffet cars. Although the menus didn’t say so, the fare they offered is distinctly second class. If that’s true, then this menu, which is undated, was probably used … Continue reading
The back of this 1966 menu has on-board photos of CN trains captioned “traveliving,” a portmanteau that is translated into French as “l’art de voyager,” or the art of travel. I guess French doesn’t lend itself to portmanteaus (itself a … Continue reading
I’ve complained before that CN’s wet noodle logo is boring, even though some people consider it to be a triumph of graphic design. Its designer considered it “timeless,” noting that while Great Northern updated its goat at least twice, and … Continue reading
This menu card is in English on one side and French on the other. The menu is surprisingly sparse; about what you’d expect from Amtrak today, not a railroad in the mid-1960s. When Union Pacific started using cards instead of … Continue reading
Once a thriving sawmill town whose population peaked at 4,000 in the 1950s, Ocean Falls is accessible only by boat or seaplane. The sawmill that supported the town closed in 1980 and today it is nearly a ghost town with … Continue reading
Dated three days after yesterday’s menu, the photo on the cover of this one is even drabber, mainly because of Southeast Alaska’a typically cloudy skies. While the photograph may be more honest than the paintings CN used in the 1950s, … Continue reading