Here are Jasper Lodge menus showing people enjoying the lawns around the main lodge. The print registration is slightly off on these menus, though the problem is not as noticeable as it was on yesterday’s menus. Click image to download … Continue reading
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We’ve previously seen Jasper Park Lodge menus from 1935 and 1940 and we’ve seen this particular photo on a menu from 1948. These two from 1951 show the lodge used the same format over at least three different decades. Click … Continue reading
Soon after the war, Santa Fe/Fred Harvey began using menus with colorful paintings on their covers. But in 1946 their menu covers were plain, with little more decoration than the name of the train and a Santa Fe logo. This … Continue reading
Here’s another colorful dinner menu featuring a glacier that was supposedly visible from the Prince George. This menu has the same date, July 13, as yesterday’s lunch and the day-before-yesterday’s breakfast menu. As I noted with the breakfast menu, on … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s breakfast menu, the lunch menu on the Prince George was also presented on a card. This one shows a row of totem poles in Kitwanga, British Columbia. Kitwanga has fewer than 500 people but still has a row … Continue reading
This breakfast menu card advertises Canadian National’s Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, Fort Garry being the name of the original settlement that became Winnipeg. The menu has the usual egg-and-meat dishes plus a few unusual (by today’s standards) items such … Continue reading
Now here’s a holiday menu; the Northern Pacific should have taken note. “Season’s Greetings” emblazoned on the cover with a beautiful winter scene of a Hudson Valley house that happens to have been the home of Washington Irving puts diners … Continue reading
Here is Northern Pacific’s rather pathetic attempt at a “holiday menu” in 1967. We’ve seen this menu cover before. Inside, the menu has no holiday decorations but claims in large letters that it is a “Holiday Menu.” The menu says … Continue reading
The Prince George itself (herself? himself? Ships are supposed to have feminine pronouns but it feels strange to call a ship named after a man “her”) is prominently featured on this colorful dinner menu cover. Of course, it was also … Continue reading
This menu cover uses artwork in a style the same as the British Columbia logging menu presented here a couple of days ago. The children give it a “cute” factor not found on the timber menu. Click image to download … Continue reading