Five years after yesterday’s dinner menu, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is still 40 cents. The most expensive meal is a hamburger, French fries, soup or juice, dessert, and beverage at $1.15, or about $7.50 today. cheapest viagra tablets … Continue reading
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This menu is dated 1964, which means it was probably used on a streamliner as Union Pacific didn’t have many heavyweight trains with dining car service left. Children under 12 could order a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for 40 … Continue reading
Here’s a companion to yesterday’s menu, with the same date but featuring a photo of the train in the Colorado Rockies instead of the Feather River Canyon. Unfortunately, I had this menu in a frame for many years and some … Continue reading
From the mid-50s through the mid-60s, California Zephyr menus were pretty plain, but in the late ’60s the railroads began featuring photos of the train itself on brilliant yellow covers. This menu, dated October, 1969, spotlights the Cal Zephyr on … Continue reading
Although dated just nine months after yesterday’s menu, and printed on the same card stock, this menu is greatly abbreviated. It offers just three combinations: cereal or waffle with juice, bread, and beverage or just the juice, bread and beverage. … Continue reading
Like the lunch menus of the 1960s, breakfast menus on the California Zephyr were printed on cards. Here is a blank card featuring the Zephyr logo. No doubt the commissaries printed thousands of these blanks, and later printed the menus … Continue reading
Four years after yesterday’s menu and choices have been reduced a bit further. There are only two sandwich platters with dessert and beverage, instead of five, and there are no fish entrées on the a la carte menu. However, an … Continue reading
Yesterday’s California Zephyr lunch menu was a folder, but by the early 1960s lunch menus were merely a single card. The table d’hôte side had been replaced by “combinations” that consisted of a beverage, dessert, and one of five sandwiches, … Continue reading
Here’s a California Zephyr lunch menu dated March, 1951, when the train was just two years old. The cover shows the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, but the menu inside looks nothing like what I would expect from a fine, Bay … Continue reading
Children’s menus are interesting to people who love cute drawings of various animals, but less interesting to rail fans who want to see pictures of trains. This menu has both. Click image to download a 1.7-MB PDF of this menu. … Continue reading