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This menu is undated, but the prices of the deluxe dinner salad and sirloin steak dinner are exactly the same as … Continue reading
Category Archives: City of Los Angeles
The City of Los Angeles menu is dated November, 1964 and is the same size as UP’s color-photo menus. Inside, the menu has the same table d’hôte-only format as some other dinner menus of the late 1950s and early 1960s. … Continue reading
In 1971, Union Pacific returned to the wrap-around color photo covers with many new photos, some of which we have seen before: Disneyland, Grand Canyon, the Mormon Temple, and Zion. Here’s another new one from Yellowstone showing a geyser that … Continue reading
As we’ve seen before, in 1969 Union Pacific departed from the wrap-around color photo menus in order to celebrate its centennial with Howard Fogg paintings. Here are two menus with the same cover, showing construction of a bridge across the … Continue reading
This cover photo looks very similar to the one on yesterday’s menu. But Pacific Grove is more than 350 miles north of Laguna Beach; the former being a little south of San Jose while the latter is a little south … Continue reading
This City of Los Angeles menu has a beautiful cover photo showing an ocean-front garden in Southern California. Despite Google maps, I haven’t succeeded in finding the exact location of the photo, but I suspect it is in the northern … Continue reading
This view of MacArthur Park is from the opposite direction of the one on the cover of the 1955 menu presented here a couple of weeks ago. Cars shown on the 1955 menu were from the 1930s and 1940s; cars … Continue reading
Issued in October, 1965, for the City of Los Angeles, this lunch menu–unlike some of the dinner menus–still had an extensive a la carte side along with five complete meals (though not table d’hôte) on the other side. The meals … Continue reading
Los Angeles’ iconic City Hall appears on the cover of this menu, which was used on trains 103 & 104, the City of Los Angeles. The menu is dated December 15, 1950, but it must have been used in February, … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a Hoover Dam menu from 1946 (when UP still called it Boulder Dam), but the photo used on that menu showed numerous automobiles that clearly dated from the 1940s. For this 1968 menu, UP used a new … Continue reading