Here are three menus whose covers we’ve seen before but which offer different menus on the inside. First is a 1963 City of Los Angeles dinner menu with Sun Valley’s golf course on the cover, which we previously saw on a 1965 coffee shop menu.
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A couple of days ago, I noted that the coffee shop menus of this era had a lot of variety, and that was partly to make up for the fact that the dining car menu shown here only had five table d’hôte meals and no a la carte. I wonder if that was due to some limitation of the dome dining cars or if the dome diners were so popular that UP wanted to route the riff raff to the coffee shop cars. Continue reading