This lunch menu was printed for the Texas Chief in 1961 and is a companion to the Kachina doll and Arrow Maker menus. All three cover paintings by Eanger Irving Couse show a Native American man doing very different things … Continue reading
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This menu isn’t clearly dated, but the code “7-1-8” makes me suspect it is from 1958 as the prices aren’t high enough for 1968. Nor does the menu state what meal it was for, but the lack of a true … Continue reading
We’ve seen this painting before on a 1950 menu and a 1964 menu, not to mention the 1912 Titan of Chasms booklet and the 1950 Grand Canyon booklet presented here two days ago. Those other publications cropped the painting differently, … Continue reading
The painting on the cover of this menu is by Frederic Kimball Mizen, a Chicago artist whose work we’ve seen in Santa Fe advertising before, including on the cover of yesterday’s booklet. As this painting suggests, Mizen spent some time … Continue reading
The all-Pullman California Limited was Santa Fe’s oldest Chicago-Los Angeles train. By 1931, when this menu was issued, it had been replaced by the Chief as Santa Fe’s premiere train, but it was still a very fine train. Click image … Continue reading
After Santa Fe streamlined its premiere trains, the Grand Canyon Limited remained a heavyweight and clearly had a secondary status. But, as this menu illustrates, it was a top-notch operation in 1930. In fact, the train was barely more than … Continue reading
This menu has a date but doesn’t say what train used it. The steam locomotive on the cover suggests that it wasn’t a zephyr. Tiny print on this menu reads, “12/47,” which I presume is the date it was printed, … Continue reading
This menu is undated, but the front cover says it is for “The New Twin Zephyrs” while the back lists the name of each car in the “Train of the Gods” and the “Train of the Goddesses.” That suggests it … Continue reading
This simple beverage menu was used in a North Coast Limited lounge car, meaning either the Traveller’s Rest car or the “lounge in the sky” vista-dome sleeper that replaced the observation car after that car was removed from the train … Continue reading
This is a pretty complete lunch menu for the mid-1960s. All it is missing is the nice cover with the menu inside; instead, it is just a card with the table d’hôte printed on one side and a la carte … Continue reading