Yesterday’s Colorado Room beverage menu had wild rose and lupin on the cover. Today’s has buttercup, anemone, and fringed gentian, the same as this dinner menu. Click image to download a 230-KB PDF of this menu. This particular menu, however, … Continue reading
Nine years ago, when I presented a beverage menu for the vista-dome Denver Zephyr with a columbine and deer vine painting on the cover, I noted that I had also seen one with wild rose and lupin. I then forgot … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before, but it was from a blank menu so I posted just a JPEG of the cover. Today’s is a complete menu dated October, 1969. As I’ve noted before, the Budd Company, which built the … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a dinner menu that featured a painting of coneflowers and daisies on the front, with a smaller painting of gaillardia and cattails on the back. This menu has the same two paintings in reverse. These paintings, as … Continue reading
Here’s a 1966 Denver Zephyr dinner menu we haven’t seen before. This one has a painting of “Baneberry — flower and berry — and Chickweed” on the front cover and one of “Columbine and Deer Vine” on the back. We’ve … Continue reading
As I’ve noted before, when the Budd Company built the 1956 Denver Zephyr, it hired the Paul Crét architectural firm to design the interiors, which in turn commissioned Kathryn Fligg (now Kathryn Fligg Lee) to do 115 paintings of wildflowers … Continue reading
This 1962 Denver Zephyr menu shows columbine and deer vine on the front cover painting and baneberry and chickwood on the back. As previously noted, these are reproductions of paintings by Kathryn Fligg; the originals were mounted in the train’s … Continue reading
As previously noted here, the Budd Company hired an artist named Kathryn Fligg to paint 115 pictures of wildflowers that were hung in the bedrooms and compartments of the Denver Zephyr. A small selection of these paintings were reproduced on … Continue reading
This 1970 menu is decorated with wildflower paintings, the originals of which were mounted and framed in Denver Zephyr bedrooms and compartments. The menu doesn’t say so, but the paintings were done by Kathryn Fligg, a 1951 graduate of the … Continue reading
These Denver Zephyr menus are special for reasons other than the fine art on their covers. First, they are extra large, nearly 9″ by 12″, which is especially unusual as they were used near the end of the private passenger … Continue reading
