Today’s booklet was advertised in yesterday’s timetable as an “example of the principles of fine book-making applied to travel literature.” While it only superficially resembles a fine book, it is certainly a lavish travel booklet. At 9″x12″, it is much … Continue reading
Category Archives: Southern Pacific
This timetable advertises a 32-page booklet about Mexico sold by SP for 25 cents (about $5 today), calling it “an effective example of the principles of fine book-making applied to travel literature.” I’ll present this booklet here tomorrow. Click image … Continue reading
This brochure promotes the Playa De Cortés (Cortés Beach) Hotel and travel to Mexico in general on SP’s route down the West Coast of that nation. The brochure is undated, but it does say that the hotel will open “starting … Continue reading
We’ve already seen an SP timetable dated August, 1935, but that one was 16 pages long. This one is 48 pages and includes lots of local and branchline trains that aren’t listed on the other one. The shorter one also … Continue reading
Comparing this timetable to the 1929 edition presented a few days ago shows the toll the Depression took on passenger service. Where that timetable had two trains a day between New Orleans and Los Angeles, three a day between Chicago … Continue reading
Here are more Southern Pacific menus featuring covers by Bay Area artist Michel Kady. These were used during a trip by the 1934 University of Southern California football team to play the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh. USC lost that … Continue reading
The painting on the cover of this menu is signed Michel Kady, a San Francisco Bay Area artist who lived from 1901 to 1977. In addition to doing ads for other California companies such as North American Aviation, Kady’s art … Continue reading
The cover of this timetable is in poor condition, with more than half of it missing, but the rest is very readable. The train names are more familiar than those on yesterday’s timetable, with Sunset Limited/Argonaut on the Sunset route, … Continue reading
The Streamliner Memories reader who contributed scans for most of the Union Pacific timetables presented in the last few weeks also provided scans for four dozen Southern Pacific timetables and fare schedules that I’ll be presenting over the next two … Continue reading
This issue of West encourages people to take the “Redwood Empire Tour” via SP subsidiary Northwestern Pacific overnight from San Francisco to Eureka, then Pacific Greyhound (which was partly owned by SP) from Eureka through the redwoods to Grants Pass, … Continue reading