The photograph on the cover of this menu shows a scene that few if any passengers riding the Olympian to Seattle would ever see. La Push is in the Quileute Indian Reservation on the Pacific shore and, while it wasn’t closed to the general public, the Quileutes did not begin to encourage tourism until after 2000.

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This menu is undated but it lists Wm. Dolphin as the Superintendent of Dining Cars. Dolphin was promoted to this position in 1938. Milwaukee Road menu formats changed in 1939 or 1940, so I would date this to 1938 or 1939. La Push is more than 200 miles from Seattle and in the late 1930s the roads were probably not great, and the town probably had no hotel or other tourist facilities before the war, so this menu was more a reminder of scenes passengers would never see in real life than a promotion for people to travel to Washington’s Pacific Coast.