Under the Turquoise Sky: 1921

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Except for a couple of pages at the back, just about every page of this booklet has a photo. Yet due to smaller type and narrower margins, a typical page of this booklet with a photo has more words than a page of solid text in yesterday’s 1903 edition. Still, with half the number of interior pages, something had to have been left out.

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A map in the back highlights Rock Island routes from Chicago and St. Louis to Denver and Colorado Springs as well as from Memphis to Hot Springs, Arkansas. The text notes that the bathhouse in Manitou, Colorado is operated by the same management as one of the largest spas in Hot Springs, which is supposed to be an endorsement of some kind. People in the 1920s placed greater faith in the curative powers of hot springs than people today, who just see them as recreational pools.

Under the Turquoise Sky: 1903

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We’ve seen 1924 and 1928 editions of the Rock Island’s “turquoise sky” booklets about Colorado. This one doesn’t have a clear date, but the cover art is dated 1902 and the booklet cites data from 1900 and 1901, so Rock Island probably published it in 1903.

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This edition has plenty of black-and-white photos, but most are small and the booklet relies more on text to sell the trip. Many of the photos show rail lines, all of which belonged to the Rio Grande, Colorado & Southern, or another non-Rock Island railroad. Since tourists had plenty of alternative ways of getting to Colorado–Burlington, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, and Union Pacific–booklets like these may have done more to promote the Rio Grande and other Colorado roads than the railroads that issued them.

Four More Pin-Up Blotters

Posted on by September 13, 2017
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According to Wikipedia, the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin “abruptly ended passenger service” at noon on July 3, 1957, leaving commuters stranded in Chicago. It ran its last freight train two years later, leaving the South Shore as Sisk’s only client mentioned on the blotters.


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Art by Earl Moran. Continue reading →

George Sisk Pin-Up Blotters, 1952-1956

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The third railroad represented by George Sisk was the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin, which got its start as the Aurora, Elgin and Chicago. It changed its name when it came out of bankruptcy in 1922, and Samuel Insull took it over in 1926.


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The signature on this pin-up art is unreadable, but it has been attributed to Jerry T. N. Thompson. Thompson was an assistant to Earl McPherson, who made calendars for Brown & Bigalow. When McPherson was crippled by polio in 1951, Thompson took over the work. Continue reading →

George Sisk Pin-Up Blotters, 1950-1951

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The Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee or North Shore line was formed by Insull in 1916 through the consolidation of several other railroads. As the name suggests, it connected Chicago with Milwaukee, providing both rapid passenger service and freight service to local businesses.


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All but the last of today’s blotters feature paintings by Gil Elvgren. Continue reading →

George Sisk Pin-Up Blotters, 1948-1950

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The Chicago, South Shore & South Bend or South Shore line was formed by Insull in 1925 when he took over another bankrupt railroad. The line is notable for owning Little Joe electric locomotives similar to those owned by the Milwaukee Road. Unlike most electric interurbans built in the early twentieth century, it survives today as a Diesel freight railroad, while the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District continues to run electric passenger trains on the South Shore line.


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Earl Moran’s work became particularly well known when it was featured in Life magazine in 1940. In 1946, a young would-be starlet named Norma Jean Dougherty asked Moran to use her as a model. Later known as Marylin Monroe, she was the model for the art on the February, 1948 blotter. Continue reading →

George Sisk Pin-Up Blotters, 1945-1948

Posted on by September 11, 2017
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The three railroads that George Sisk represented were all once part of the Insull empire. Samuel Insull was one of the first to realize that the electric power industry had huge economies of scale, and by 1929 he controlled 4,400 power companies in 39 states. Because many electric interurban lines generated their own power, he purchased those as well.


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The pin-up art on the blotter from September, 1945 is unsigned, but it was by Edward D’Ancona. Little is known about him, but like Gil Elvgren, he first sold his art to St. Paul publisher Louis F. Dow, some speculate that D’Ancona was also from St. Paul. Continue reading →

George Sisk Pin-Up Blotters, 1940-1942

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George Sisk was the Kansas City agent for three electric interurban lines in Chicago. For at least 22 years, he gave his customers monthly blotters featuring a calendar, a map of the lines he represented, and a pin-up girl. The January, 1940 blotter features a blonde painted by Earl Moran, whose painting career stretched from about 1931 to 1982.


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These blotters are all from the Dale Hastin collection. While Sisk must have distributed more than 500 blotters, I only scanned 27 in Dale’s collection, which is a reasonable sample of what these blotters were like. Continue reading →

C&NW 400 Dinner Menu

Posted on by July 29, 2017
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C&NW’s 1962 timetable showed the 400 leaving Chicago and Minneapolis at about 11 am and arriving at their opposite termini at about 7 pm, so there was time to serve both lunch and dinner in the diner. This 1964 dinner menu is sparse by 1950s dining car standards, but more extensive (and more expensive) than yesterday’s cafe menu.

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The table d’hôte side offered a “special 400 steak dinner” for $5.50 (nearly $45 today), broiled fish or pork chops for $3.00 (about $24 today), and a Spanish omelet for $2.85. All came with soup or juice, potatoes and vegetable, salad, bread, beverage, and dessert. The a la carte side offered corned beef hash with a poached egg, five sandwiches, a chicken salad, and various desserts and beverages.

C&NW 400 Cafe Car Menu

Posted on by July 29, 2017
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Dated 1960, half of this menu offers a variety of alcoholic beverages and the other half has a much shorter selection of dinners. The menu doesn’t say so, but it obviously was used in the train’s cafe car rather than the full diner.

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For a $1.25 (a little over $10 in today’s money), passengers could have their choice of broiled fish, chopped round steak, or a combination salad bowl, all of which came with soup, bread, and a beverage. The fish and beef also came with potatoes and vegetables. Dessert was an extra 25 cents. These prices seem quite reasonable, especially considering many of the alcoholic drinks were $1.