Here is the first completely new Union Pacific photo menu I’ve seen in a long time. It shows Denver’s Washington Park, the same park featured on another menu, which identified it simply as “City Park.” Like most other UP photo … Continue reading
Here are three more note pad sheets advertising Union Pacific trains. I’m told that the note pad these came from contained all three of these plus the three shown yesterday in rotation. Again, the Overland logo dates these to before … Continue reading
This booklet is the same size as the Union Pacific name-train booklets such as the one presented yesterday. Though it is printed on a completely different kind of paper, that is probably meant to recall faded papers from the nineteenth … Continue reading
Many City of Denver menus featured photos of Denver parks and civic buildings on the covers, but that wasn’t always the case. We’ve seen this photo before on a 1965 City of Los Angeles breakfast menu, but the inside of … Continue reading
Until I found this menu on eBay, I knew about it only because it was visible in a postcard. This copy is dated July 2, 1954, and has a handwritten note saying “OK Jay 6/30,” suggesting that this was a … Continue reading
Here are several items that could have come from a single, somewhat circuitous, trip in around 1960. (But they didn’t; I received them from multiple sources.) Click any image to download a PDF of that item. First, you get an … Continue reading
Here’s a post-war update to the inaugural booklet for Union Pacific’s Chicago-Denver train. This one has fewer pages and is slightly smaller in size and indicates both the similarities and differences between the 1936 and 1950 versions of this train. … Continue reading
Union Pacific inaugurated the City of Los Angeles, City of Portland, and City of San Francisco in 1935, with the City of Denver coming in June, 1936. This booklet isn’t dated, but at one point it refers to the train … Continue reading
This 1955 brochure describes the post-war City of Denver, which featured a dining car decorated with cities-to-plains murals, an Old English pub served by red-jacketed waiters, and a blunt-end observation lounge car. The brochure is decorated with color photos and … Continue reading
A few days ago I mentioned that the limited number of table d’hôte selections on a City of Los Angeles dinner menu of the mid-1960s may have been supplemented by a separate menu featuring the chef’s salad. Here is that … Continue reading
