The menu presents a different view of Longs Peak from the one on the cover of the City of Los Angeles menu posted here a few months ago, yet it is recognizably the same mountain. Recent photos taken from the … Continue reading
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The inside of this March 1929 menu is identical to a previous menu that featured Bryce Canyon National Park on the outside. Outside, this menu pictures and describes Crater Lake, Oregon’s only national park. Crater Lake isn’t on the Union … Continue reading
One more Glacier Park menu from the New York Public Library. Like yesterday’s, this one is from 1946 and has the lower prices ($1.25 for “plate dinner number one”). Curiously, the number of entrĂ©es in the number one plate dinner … Continue reading
Unlike yesterday’s menu, which is from my personal collection, this one is from the New York Public Library. Like yesterday’s, this dinner menu is dated 1946, but the prices are the lower prices as the 1947 menu. Where today’s menu … Continue reading
Here’s another dinner menu in Great Northern’s Glacier Park series, this one from 1946 showing Lake Josephine, in the Many Glacier region. The menu itself is similar to, but actually slightly higher-priced than, the 1947 Empire Builder menu presented here … Continue reading
Monument Valley, which is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation, was made famous by John Ford westerns in the 1930s. So many Santa Fe passengers who had never actually been to the valley probably still recognized the cover of this … Continue reading
This 1943 menu has the same cover as the 1949 Oriental Limited menu that I posted a few weeks ago. Inside is very different with lower prices, advertisements for “victory bonds,” and a sticker proclaiming May 17-22 as “National Cotton … Continue reading
Like the Little Chief Mountain menu shown here previously, this menu is from 1941. While the two are not exactly the same, the main entrĂ©es seem to have been simply rearranged. Click image to download a 652-KB PDF of this … Continue reading
Here’s a breakfast menu from 1939 that’s a mate to the 1941 dinner menu I posted last May. Where the dinner menu featured Mesa Verde on the cover, this one has Pikes Peak. Click image to download a 1.1-MB PDF … Continue reading
After the Panoramic and the Scenic Limited but before the California Zephyr was the Exposition Flyer, the first through train allowing coach as well as sleeping car passengers to go from the Midwest to California over the Rio Grande route. … Continue reading