This menu features two San Francisco landmarks, Fisherman’s Wharf and Coit Tower, in one photo. The menu is marked for the City of Portland, which is unusual because nearly all menus with pictures of San Francisco were used on the … Continue reading
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After the railroad’s 1969 centennial, Union Pacific issued a menu cover featuring the view from Point Imperial on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. This pre-centennial menu has a similar view, but with people in the foreground. The graphic … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a 1960 dinner menu. The menu side is identical to yesterday’s, complete with the elegant cyan background. Curiously, the City of Portland menus call the secondary restaurant a “cafe-lounge” (and include a list of … Continue reading
This menu uses the exact same photo that was used in a 1947 menu but cropped to fit on the front cover rather than wrap around to the back, with the result that one of the towers of the bridge … Continue reading
At first glance, this menu cover has the same photo as one we’ve seen from 1958. But a closer look reveals that the photos are different and were taken some years apart. This photo is zoomed out a bit to … Continue reading
This cover was on last year’s list of missing menus, and naturally was used on the City of San Francisco. Inside, the menu uses a combination of fonts we’ve only seen once before. There are certain properties that are special … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s breakfast menus, these two have identical lunch menus dated March, 1959, while the cover photos are ones we’ve seen before. First is the rose garden in Portland’s Washington Park, which we’ve previously seen on a 1959 breakfast menu … Continue reading
Two more menus whose covers we’ve seen before and whose backs are identical breakfast menus. The first shows Seattle’s Lake Washington and the floating bridge, which we’ve previously seen on a 1960 lunch menu. Click image to download a 1.6-MB … Continue reading
The cover of this menu is identical to one we have seen before, but this particular one was issued in January 1959, five months after the other one. The menu offerings are a little different: salmon, omelet, lamb chops, ham, … Continue reading
Here are two menus whose covers we’ve seen before but whose menu sides we haven’t. The first, featuring the Great White Throne, is dated December 1958 for lunch service in the City of Portland cafe-lounge car. We’ve seen this cover … Continue reading