Here’s another in the series of Sunset Limited menus used by the Southern Pacific in the early 1960s. This menu is from the Ira Silverman menu collection at Northwestern University, and I’m including it here so I can display as … Continue reading
For most of its history of passenger service, the longest ride anyone could take on the Southern Pacific was the Sunset Limited, so the railroad considered this its number 1 train even though it probably didn’t attract as many riders … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen this cover photo on a menu from someone else’s collection, but I’ve since added one to my own collection. But first, here is a 1941 dinner menu from the New York Public Library. Click image to download … Continue reading
The University of Portland football team had a terrible season in 1939, winning just one game. That game took place in San Francisco and was quite possibly the occasion for this menu, as only one other game would have required … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a Southern Pacific menu with the Golden Gate Exposition’s Pacifica statue on the cover, but this one is different, with a more close-up view of the statue. The previous menu was used for a tour group but … Continue reading
These menus aren’t from my collection, but they fill out the series of menus whose front covers have silhouettes showing some scene or icon along Southern Pacific lines. The first page of the menus is 5 inches wide while the … Continue reading
Yesterday, I wrote that most of the Forty-Niner menu covers used images taken from the heart of Southern Pacific territory, so of course today would be the exception: an engraving of Colonel Fremont speaking with Indians at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. … Continue reading
This engraving, like the first Forty-Niner menu presented here a few days ago, is by André Castaigne. Like the previous one, it is dated 1891 and was probably used in Century magazine. Click image to download a 832-KB PDF of … Continue reading
The engraving on today’s cover is by Hugo Nahl, who was born in Germany in 1833 and, along with his brother Charles, were considered California’s first major artists. Their parents must have been the first hippies: Charles was the son … Continue reading
Today’s menu features an engraving by Harry Davidson (1858-1924), an artist who was well-known enough to rate an obituary in the New York Times. Born in Philadelphia, he lived most of his live in New York where he was also … Continue reading
