This City of Los Angeles menu has a beautiful cover photo showing an ocean-front garden in Southern California. Despite Google maps, I haven’t succeeded in finding the exact location of the photo, but I suspect it is in the northern … Continue reading
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This view of MacArthur Park is from the opposite direction of the one on the cover of the 1955 menu presented here a couple of weeks ago. Cars shown on the 1955 menu were from the 1930s and 1940s; cars … Continue reading
Here’s a coffee shop dinner menu that was issued for the City of Los Angeles in 1965. Like yesterday’s menu, half of this one is devoted to beverages and fountain service. The other half lists four table d’hôte meals and … Continue reading
Yesterday, we had a 1960 menu with no a la carte section, and I suggested that passengers who wanted a la carte meals were probably directed to the cafe car. If this menu is anything to go by, they might … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s menu, the color photo on this one doesn’t wrap around to the back cover. Even more peculiar, we’ve seen very same photo in a wrap-around version on menus from 1947 and 1950. The photo captions are identical, meaning … Continue reading
Another menu cover that we’ve seen before in a 1954 breakfast edition. This one is a lunch menu whose menu items are identical to yesterday’s. As the problem increases, different types of online medicines and they have a cialis prices … Continue reading
This is one of the few Union Pacific menus that features Seattle, Washington, which wasn’t on the route of any “city” streamliners. The only other menu with a Seattle connection has the administration building for the University of Washington. This … Continue reading
Another cover photo we’ve seen before on a 1960 dinner menu. Having grown up in Portland and visited the Rose Garden (located in Washington Park just west of downtown) many times, I find this to be one of my favorite … Continue reading
Denver’s unimaginatively named City Park dates back to 1880 and is 330 acres in size. It includes the Denver Zoo and the Museum of Nature and Science (which has dioramas painted by the painter whose work was also featured on … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover photo before in a 1958 edition. Like yesterday’s, this one was issued by the Milwaukee Road commissary in February, 1957. During the past few years there has been a steady increase in demand for alternative medicines … Continue reading