Dinner on the Oregon

Posted on by August 25, 2018
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Dining cars on the 1929 Empire Builder were named after states and Canadian provinces served by the Great Northern, and this dinner menu was used on the dining car Oregon. The menu from my collection is undated, but someone had written “1935?” on the inside (which I photoshopped out). A full dinner on 1930 and 1931 menus was $1.50, where here it is $1.25. Prices were reduced due to the Depression, so 1935 is a reasonable date, though it could have been a little earlier.

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Mount Baker National Forest

Posted on by August 25, 2018
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The Mount Baker National Forest was carved out of the previous Washington National Forest in 1924 and, as previously noted, an impressive lodge was built in 1927. I suspect local boosters hoped that naming a national forest after Mount Baker would have the same draw for tourists as naming a national park after Mount Rainier. Though most Americans don’t really know the difference between a national forest and a national park, the subsequent tourist boom did not really materialize, so when the main lodge burned to the ground in 1931, no one tried to rebuild it.

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This booklet is from 1928, right after the lodge was built, and gives prices for transportation, guide services, and rooms in the lodge. Like other publications I photographed at the Minnesota History Center, this PDF suffers from parallax, paper curl, and some focusing issues so that I am a little embarrassed to present it here. But despite some blurriness, it is fully readable and a worthy part of Great Northern history.

Electrified in the Cascades

Posted on by August 25, 2018
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In anticipation of the 7.9-mile Cascade Tunnel, which opened in 1929, Great Northern electrified 73 miles of its line between Wenatchee and Skykomish. These two menus depict early electric locomotives, one pulling the Oriental Limited and one pulling an unseen train.

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Although these menu covers might have been used in dining car service, neither of these particular menus were used on a train. The first was used for a 1928 dinner meeting of the Great Northern Railway Club and included the words to some songs on the back, one of which was the “Great Northern Railway No. 1” song (meaning the club was the best club “in any region”). Continue reading →

The Prince of Wales Hotel

Posted on by August 25, 2018
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The Prince of Wales Hotel opened in 1927, and I believe Great Northern stopped using the Art Nouveau-style menus after 1929. So, although these menus are undated, they would have been issued during that window of time.

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The hotel was designed by none other than Louis Hill, who initially planned a four-story building something like the Glacier Park Hotel. But he made so many design changes while the building was under construction that the builders said they had to build and rebuild some sections four times. The result is visually delightful but I’m sure it never paid for its construction costs, not that Hill really cared as the railroad was so profitable. Continue reading →

For You a Rose in Portland Grows

Posted on by August 25, 2018
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Portland was known for its roses at least as early as 1888, when the Portland Rose Society was formed, and the slogan “For you a rose in Portland grows” dates back to at least 1916, when it was used on a Rose Festival poster. I grew up in Portland and my family home was one of many that had rows of roses lining the front yard.

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The club breakfast side of this 1926 menu offers fruit or cereal with beverage and a wide variety of entrées, ranging from a muffin to ham or bacon, two eggs, and a muffin or toast. The a la carte side includes such items as grape nuts, wheaties, loganberry preserves, and finnan haddie. Continue reading →

Two More Art Nouveau Menus

Posted on by November 25, 2018
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Today’s first menu features a P2 mountain-type locomotive, the pride of the Great Northern in 1926, pulling the Oriental Limited by Mount Index in the Washington Cascades. While the 44-hour Chicago-Seattle streamlined Empire Builder would later pass this scene in the dark of night, the 1920s 70-hour Oriental Limited was scheduled to pass this point in mid-afternoon.

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This image is a colorized and heavily edited version of a black-and-white photo. The postcard below is probably a more realistic representation of the scene; it is colorized but still crisp and it appears likely that the locomotive was moved to the left and shrunk in the menu painting to better fit the format. Continue reading →

Fort Union & Many Tail Feathers Menus

Posted on by August 25, 2018
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These two 1926 menus feature beautiful paintings from the old Northwest. The first menu doesn’t say so, but the painting is by Swiss-French artist Karl Bodmer, based on sketches he made during a 1833 expedition to the American West and first published in Germany in about 1840 and in England in 1841.

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Perhaps coincidentally, Bodmer was a member of the Barbizon school of painting, which was James J. Hill’s favorite style. The Barbizonians preferred to paint directly from nature and were reacting against the Romantic movement which focused more on emotion than realism. Continue reading →

First Call for Dinner

Posted on by November 30, 2018
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This book of children’s verses is as much an advertisement for the 1924 Oriental Limited as it is a way to entertain children waiting for their dinners. Each page includes a few lines about one course or entrée of a meal: relishes, fruit cocktail, soup, fish, chicken pie, ham, bread, vegetables, salad, fruit, baked apple, dessert, and coffee. Few children would be able to eat such a multi-course meal in one sitting.

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At one time, dining car staff turned the tables into beds for the night. This booklet brags, “The Oriental Limited is modern and complete; its waiters have a sleeping car, they don’t eat where you sleep.” Of course, the waiters are depicted in the booklet using what today would be consider racist stereotypes. Continue reading →

Columbia River Expedition Miscellany

Posted on by August 25, 2018
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The Minnesota History Center GN archive is full of little items relating to the Columbia River Historical Expedition. One of the educational features of the expedition was a museum car, curated by the Minnesota Historical Society’s Willoughby Babcock. This brochure was given to members of the public who toured the car.

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When the expedition trains arrived at Fort Union (and presumably other destinations), they were greeted by people in cars who drove them to the appropriate historic sites. Continue reading →

Fort Union Poster

Posted on by August 25, 2018
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This poster advertises the Indian Congress and other events taking place at the Fort Union site during the Columbia River Expedition. Posters like this one brought thousands of people from Montana and North Dakota to join expedition members in witnessing the celebration.

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