Just a few months ago, we had a Southern lunch menu with a fruit basket on the cover like this one, but the cover was printed in black and green This one has the addition of a reddish-orange color. It … Continue reading
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These three menus were used on the train chartered for the Detroit Knights Templar for their September 1949 journey to the mason’s convention in San Francisco. We’ve seen the covers before but not the interiors. Click image to download a … Continue reading
Here’s a Rio Grande menu in the glued-on photo series that we haven’t seen before. It features the Geneva Steel mill that was built in Utah with federal funds during World War II. After the war, the federal government sold … Continue reading
A man and two women sail an uncomfortably small boat over the Great Salt Lake. As the back of the menu notes, the lake is six to eight times as salty as the ocean, making it difficult to drown in … Continue reading
Ruby Canyon is one of the western-most canyons the Rio Grande Railroad passes through in the Colorado Rockies. After leaving the canyon, the railroad will cross the plains through Grand Junction before entering Utah and another chain of mountains. The … Continue reading
Here is an unusual version of one of Rio Grande’s glued-on menu series. Instead of putting the name of the meal on the top of the front cover, this one has the name of the train, the Prospector. The cover … Continue reading
Here’s a 1966 Denver Zephyr dinner menu we haven’t seen before. This one has a painting of “Baneberry — flower and berry — and Chickweed” on the front cover and one of “Columbine and Deer Vine” on the back. We’ve … Continue reading
Slightly smaller than a postcard and printed on similar material, this card must have been placed on dining tables rather than inserted into menus, as inserts tended to be flimsier. The menu offers a meal of roast beef hash, noodles, … Continue reading
As I’ve noted before, when the Budd Company built the 1956 Denver Zephyr, it hired the Paul Crét architectural firm to design the interiors, which in turn commissioned Kathryn Fligg (now Kathryn Fligg Lee) to do 115 paintings of wildflowers … Continue reading
The front cover of this menu features “youths” hanging on a dude ranch corral while the back cover discusses Rainier National Park. I don’t understand why NP didn’t use the back covers of this menu series to further describe the … Continue reading