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This lunch menu was used for third-class passengers on the Empress of France on July 23, 1930. The Empress had left Quebec City on July 16 and was scheduled to arrive in Southampton on July 23, so this may have … Continue reading
Category Archives: Canadian Pacific
This is the last menu I have from the 1930 Rochester tour. It is a breakfast menu dated August 16. The menu cover doesn’t say so, but the picture shows Canadian Pacific’s Hotel Saskatchewan. This hotel survives today but is … Continue reading
Here are two more dining menus from the 1930 E.R. Rochester tour that went through the Canadian Rockies. The tour traveled from Vancouver to St. Paul and Chicago, stopping at Lake Louise and Banff on the way, so these menus … Continue reading
These two dining car menus were also used on the Rochester tour through the Canadian Rockies. The first is a dinner menu dated August 13, the same day as yesterday’s lunch menu. Like yesterday’s menu, it shows two people gazing … Continue reading
This fabulous cover was used on a menu for a tour guided by someone named E.R. Rochester. This was a lunch menu for August 13, 1930 and, even though the cover shows a scene from the Chateau Lake Louise, it … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1930 menu with this cover from the Chung collection. I’ve now added this one to my own collection. Click image to download a 2.8-MB PDF of this menu. Click here to download a 2.1-MB PDF of … Continue reading
We’ve seen a copy of this photo before on a 1926 breakfast menu from the Chung Collection. That menu was used on the Mountaineer; today’s menu, which I recently acquired for my own collection, is a dinner menu from the … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu before from the Chung collection; now I’ve acquired one of my own. Chung’s was a 1926 breakfast menu; this one is a lunch menu also dated 1926. Click image to download a 770-KB PDF of this … Continue reading
In 1946, railroads aspired to replace their aging passenger equipment that was worn out from the Depression and war. Anticipating a boom in rail travel, they ordered thousands of new cars from the three main builders, Pullman, Budd, and ACF. … Continue reading
Here’s a menu in what I call the Artist’s Series. We’ve previously seen Shakespeare, John Constable, and Robert Burns, all of which were dated 1957. This one honors John Milton and is dated 1961. Since all of the other steamship … Continue reading