The painting on the cover of this menu is signed Michel Kady, a San Francisco Bay Area artist who lived from 1901 to 1977. In addition to doing ads for other California companies such as North American Aviation, Kady’s art … Continue reading
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“When life closes in about you and you feel the need of an unusual vacation, head for the Open Range!” suggests the back of this menu. “The American West and a Rocky Mountain Dude Ranch are names to conjure with … Continue reading
As with yesterday’s photo, geologic forces have reshaped Washington’s coast since Asahel Curtis took the photo on this menu card, probably a little more than a century ago. The photo shows Cape Elizabeth, on the Quinault Indian Reservation, as seen … Continue reading
Here’s Mount Saint Helens from Spirit Lake as viewed by Asahel Curtis a century or so ago. Unusual for these photo menus, the back of the card (which I photographed at the Minnesota History Center) is stamped, “In reproducing this … Continue reading
This is the third menu in Union Pacific’s wraparound photo series that featured Nob Hill in the photo. The first one is populated with 1940s automobiles and, while my copy is dated 1957, I’ve seen the photo on a 1949 … Continue reading
In 2016 I showed this cover as a missing menu, so I am pleased to be able to finally add it to my collection. Back then, I misread the text and thought it was referring a University of Idaho, but … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu before, but I’m pleased to show this slightly different edition collected by Jack Hamilton because it is in better condition. It also lists E.C. Webster as UP’s dining car manager, dating it to sometime between 1936 … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before — more than one, in fact — but this one is a dinner menu while the others we’ve seen are breakfast menus. Unlike the others, this one also lists E.C. Webster as UP’s dining … Continue reading
A Los Angeles resident named Jack Hamilton loved trains and saved this item and a few other mementos (which I’ll present in the next three days) from a trip on the City of Denver. This is the beverage menu for … Continue reading
Today I have two more Moderne menus that were collected on the same 1936 trip as the menus presented in the last two days. I’m including them together because we’ve already seen both covers, but I also have an envelope … Continue reading