Most of these Prairie Farmer menus have wrap-around photos, but this one and the one with scenes from Southern California use different photos on the front and back. This one features two scenes from the route of the Sunset Limited. … Continue reading
The road around Crater Lake is close enough to the lake that the only way to get a photo of the entire lake is to use some kind of panoramic camera, a fisheye lens, or leave the road and either … Continue reading
The photo shows a spectacular aerial view of the westbound Overland Limited traversing the Great Salt Lake. Airplanes were still rare enough in 1938 that few people would have ever seen such a view. The Overland left Ogden at 8:20 … Continue reading
Prairie Farmer‘s audience was, obviously, rural. Though WLS was in Chicago, it was a clear channel (meaning no other radio stations operated on its frequency at night), so could be heard for hundreds of miles around. I presume that “supper” … Continue reading
Here’s another breakfast menu from the WLS/Prairie Farmer tour to California. WLS stood for “world’s largest store,” as the radio station was started by Sears Roebuck in 1924. In 1928, it sold the station to Prairie Farmer magazine, which is … Continue reading
This is the first of a series of six menus from a California tour offered by Chicago radio station WLS. Though the menus are undated, other information suggests the tour left Chicago via the Alton on January 30 and returned, … Continue reading
“All boys want to be real locomotive engineers someday,” said Southern Pacific. So it put together this 16-page introduction to SP locomotives and operations and offered boys an opportunity to be a “junior engineer.” Click image to download a 3.8-MB … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a June, 1938 timetable for the Shasta Route. Here’s one dated just a month later. The only change I see to Shasta Route trains is that train 18, from San Francisco-Oakland to Grants Pass, leaves and arrives … Continue reading
The steamboat on this menu no doubt represents New Orleans, the eastern terminus of the Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited. In 1937, a similar steamboat was operating between San Francisco and Sacramento in competition with SP trains, but Southern Pacific advertising … Continue reading
This is the last menu I have from the silhouette series and appropriately it is a dinner menu dated September, 1937. The cover features a wind-swept pine overlooking Monterey Bay. Click image to download a 1.1-MB PDF of this menu. … Continue reading
