This 1959 brochure is a companion to a City of Los Angeles brochure published in the same year. The railroad still published full, 48-page along-the-way booklets for the entire system, but apparently hoped it could save money by giving some … Continue reading
These four blotters from the Dale Hastin collection advertise streamliners in the late 1930s. PDFs are about 300 to 500 KB in size. The M-10001, whose face is on this blotter, operated as the City of Portland from June, 1935 … Continue reading
Unlike the City of Los Angeles dinner menu of a couple of days ago, or some City of Portland dinner menus from nine years before, this City of Portland dinner menu has both a table d’hôte and an a la … Continue reading
Another menu cover that we’ve seen before in a 1954 breakfast edition. This one is a lunch menu whose menu items are identical to yesterday’s. As the problem increases, different types of online medicines and they have a cialis prices … Continue reading
This is one of the few Union Pacific menus that features Seattle, Washington, which wasn’t on the route of any “city” streamliners. The only other menu with a Seattle connection has the administration building for the University of Washington. This … Continue reading
Another cover photo we’ve seen before on a 1960 dinner menu. Having grown up in Portland and visited the Rose Garden (located in Washington Park just west of downtown) many times, I find this to be one of my favorite … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before on a 1954 breakfast menu, but so long as the interior menu is different, I’ll consider this a different menu. Like the menus shown in the last two days, this one is dated July … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu before in a 1960 edition, which is a surprise considering that the hairstyles in the photo would have been dated by then. But they look perfectly appropriate for 1953. Period taken by this medication to show … Continue reading
The caption on this rather boring photo of Oregon’s Willamette River says it shows the “Oregon Yacht Club” in Portland. That’s less impressive than it sounds, as the so-called Oregon Yacht Club is neither a club nor does it have … Continue reading
Union Pacific handed out this eight-page “souvenir album” to passengers on the last runs of its daily trains before Amtrak took over, April 30, 1971. A letter from UP CEO J.C. Kenefick offers a “reluctant goodbye to that small but … Continue reading
