It seems redundant to put a photo of a family being served lunch on the cover of a menu used in the same restaurant. Perhaps this menu cover was also used on Canadian Pacific dining cars, where it would make … Continue reading
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This 1938 menu was used on the Mountaineer, Canadian Pacific’s summer-only train from St. Paul to Vancouver via CP-subsidiary Soo Line. Despite being for a different train, the menu items offered are identical to those from yesterday’s Dominion menu. The … Continue reading
This menu was used on the Dominion, Canadian Pacific’s premiere train at the time. The cover painting was by Marius Hubert Robert (1885-1966), a French artist famous enough to have his biography on the French wikipedia, but not famous enough … Continue reading
The large picture on the cover of this menu shows Mt. Stephen towering over the Kicking Horse River with a Canadian Pacific passenger train coming down the 2.2 percent grade toward Field, British Columbia. The back cover mentions that a … Continue reading
We’ve seen this painting before when it was used on a 1950 menu for the Santa Fe’s Grand Canyon train. In this case, it was used on the El Capitan, and I interpret the date code at the bottom of … Continue reading
Louis Benton Akin (1868-1913) was born in Corvallis and and raised in Portland, Oregon and studied painting in New York. In 1903, the Santa Fe paid his way to Arizona so he could paint images of Hopi Indians to use … Continue reading
One of these menus was issued just two months before Amtrak took over, and the other is dated four months after Amtrak. Either the print order was placed before Santa Fe decided to join Amtrak or Santa Fe printed them … Continue reading
Dated January 10, 1971, this must have been one of the last menus before Amtrak took over. We’ve seen the cover before, in sepia tones, on a … Continue reading
This menu cover features a painting of “Autumn Aspen” by Fremont Ellis. Raised in Montana, Ellis had no formal art training but ended up spending most of his life painting in Santa Fe. The back cover of the menu misspelled … Continue reading
Santa Fe’s long-time affiliation with Fred Harvey was winding down in 1967, mainly because the descendants of the company’s namesake were losing interest in managing its widely flung operations. This beverage card may have been one of the last Fred … Continue reading