Although the San Francisco Overland Limited went from Chicago to Ogden on the Chicago & North Western and Union Pacific railroads, this menu is marked for the Southern Pacific. This suggests that the railroads each switched their own diners into … Continue reading
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I thought I was done with Union Pacific menus for awhile, but I found one more in the railroad’s university series. Unlike the others in that series, this one does not show Berkeley’s administration building but Sather Tower, also known … Continue reading
Here are the Union Pacific color wraparound photo menus missing from my collection as of August, 2015. You can download my latest checklist of UP color-photo cover menus to see if you can find any that I am missing. Update: … Continue reading
One more Union Pacific menu, this one dated October, 1971 (five months after Amtrak) and used on a tour for “financial analysts.” The cover is quite beautiful and I don’t believe I’ve seen that painting elsewhere; perhaps UP commissioned it … Continue reading
In 1971, Union Pacific returned to the wrap-around color photo covers with many new photos, some of which we have seen before: Disneyland, Grand Canyon, the Mormon Temple, and Zion. Here’s another new one from Yellowstone showing a geyser that … Continue reading
A few days ago I mentioned that the limited number of table d’hôte selections on a City of Los Angeles dinner menu of the mid-1960s may have been supplemented by a separate menu featuring the chef’s salad. Here is that … Continue reading
As we’ve seen before, in 1969 Union Pacific departed from the wrap-around color photo menus in order to celebrate its centennial with Howard Fogg paintings. Here are two menus with the same cover, showing construction of a bridge across the … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a 1958 menu with a photo of Lake Marie, but this is a different photograph, made a little more active by the waterfall in the foreground. The text to the left of the photos are almost, but … Continue reading
Unlike the City of Los Angeles dinner menu of a couple of days ago, or some City of Portland dinner menus from nine years before, this City of Portland dinner menu has both a table d’hôte and an a la … Continue reading
This cover photo looks very similar to the one on yesterday’s menu. But Pacific Grove is more than 350 miles north of Laguna Beach; the former being a little south of San Jose while the latter is a little south … Continue reading