On October 3, 1952, Dwight Eisenhower spoke in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on stage with Senator Joe McCarthy. McCarthy had just called Eisenhower’s colleague and friend, former Secretary of State George Marshall, a “traitor.” Eisenhower planned to defend his friend, but under … Continue reading
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This menu is undated, but the prices of the deluxe dinner salad and sirloin steak dinner are exactly the same as … Continue reading
The City of Los Angeles menu is dated November, 1964 and is the same size as UP’s color-photo menus. Inside, the menu has the same table d’hôte-only format as some other dinner menus of the late 1950s and early 1960s. … Continue reading
Our 1951 tourist apparently spent the night of August 13 at Many Glacier, as they retained a breakfast menu from that hotel for August 14, 1951. This menu is a little more elaborate than the breakfast menu from the Glacier … Continue reading
After spending the night at the Glacier Park Hotel, our 1951 tourist enjoyed a traditional American breakfast that possibly included juice, cereal, eggs to order, and bacon or sausage, or possibly wheat cakes with maple syrup. Again, there are no … Continue reading
In August, 1951, someone enjoyed several days in Glacier National Park and kept this menu from August 12 as a souvenir. The menu offers a choice of trout, fried chicken, bacon omelet, and roast sirloin. Last-minute changes in supplies are … Continue reading
After seeing the breakfast and lunch menus for a Powers around America Tour, here’s the dinner menu. It offers a choice of sea bass or chicken fricassee with soup, salad, bread, beverage, and peach ice cream & cake for dessert. … Continue reading
Here’s a lunch menu from what is probably the same Powers around America Tour as yesterday’s. This one features “the mountain that swallowed itself,” also known as Crater Lake. Taking a photo of the entire lake requires a very wide-angled … Continue reading
This wrap-around, black-and-white menu is undated but is from the same series as yesterday’s, so it likely to be from around 1939. The photo caption implies that the view in the photo is “seen from the train,” but it is … Continue reading
In the late 1930s, Southern Pacific had a series of wrap-around black-and-white photo menus that perhaps inspired Union Pacific/Southern Pacific’s post-war wrap-around color photo menus. This one shows Yosemite Valley, “off our San Joaquin Valley Route in California.” Unlike the … Continue reading