Two more menus whose covers we’ve seen before and whose backs are identical breakfast menus. The first shows Seattle’s Lake Washington and the floating bridge, which we’ve previously seen on a 1960 lunch menu. Click image to download a 1.6-MB … Continue reading
The cover of this menu is identical to one we have seen before, but this particular one was issued in January 1959, five months after the other one. The menu offerings are a little different: salmon, omelet, lamb chops, ham, … Continue reading
Here are two menus whose covers we’ve seen before but whose menu sides we haven’t. The first, featuring the Great White Throne, is dated December 1958 for lunch service in the City of Portland cafe-lounge car. We’ve seen this cover … Continue reading
The menu sides of these items are all identical to yesterday’s, while the cover photos are all ones we have seen before. Click image to download a 1.7-MB PDF of this menu. This photo of aspens in Rocky Mountain National … Continue reading
This attractive scene shows two woolen-garbed skiers looking out over their balcony at a line of Union Pacific buses bringing more guests from the latest UP train at Shoshone, Idaho. The 1958 timetable shows both westbound and eastbound Portland Roses … Continue reading
These three menus have two things in common: first, the menus themselves are identical to yesterday’s; and second, we’ve seen all of the cover photos before. Like yesterday’s, all three of these menus are marked for the City of Portland. … Continue reading
Union Pacific issued at least four different wrap-around color menus featuring Boulder/Hoover Dam, starting with a canyon-bottom view similar to this one in 1947, followed by an overhead view as early as 1948. After this one appeared in the late … Continue reading
Here’s another menu in the strange, non-wrap-around format. Even stranger, this menu uses the exact-same photo that was used on other Columbia Gorge menus, only the two people at the bottom of the photo in the other menus have been … Continue reading
Every time I think my collection of Union Pacific wrap-around color photo menus is nearing completion, I find something new. Here is a 1957 City of Portland breakfast menu featuring something I’ve never before seen on a Union Pacific menu … Continue reading
We’ve already seen this photograph on the cover of a 1958 menu marked “Domeliner City of Portland.” This one is from 1954, before domes were added to the train, so it is marked “Streamliner City of Portland.” It is also … Continue reading
