We’ve previously seen a menu in this series featuring the Utah state capitol, so it makes sense that the Rio Grande also issued one featuring the Colorado capitol. In 1908, the capitol dome was gilded with 200 ounces of gold … Continue reading
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The hanging bridge which the Rio Grande used to traverse a particularly narrow spot in the Arkansas River gorge was featured in lots of the railroad’s advertising. Shown in the background here, the back cover of this menu has a … Continue reading
Dated December, 1966, this menu cover was obviously made for the Christmas holidays. Although you can’t tell from the image below, which shows both the front and back covers of the menu, this menu has an odd shape, only 5-1/4″ … Continue reading
We’ve seen a Northern Pacific die-cut menu in the shape of an apple and a Salt Lake Route booklet in the shape of an orange. Great Northern even had a die-cut menu in the shape of a fish, which I … Continue reading
This menu used in the Many Glacier Hotel could be mailed to a friend as a postcard. The photo shows Swiftcurrent Falls, but the view needlessly includes the same, somewhat altered, building that we saw on the 1923 menu a … Continue reading
In August, 1923, Kiwanis Clubs in northern Minnesota took a trip to Watertown, South Dakota, probably for a regional meeting of some kinds. Along the way, they were served breakfast, lunch, and dinner from this menu featuring a glued-on, hand-colored … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s cover, this menu cover showing the “fountain of phantom arches” exaggerates the gold and yellow colors of the subject matter. Known as the Tower of the Sun, the tall building in the background was the centerpiece of the … Continue reading
In 1939, Southern Pacific issued a series of menus advertising the Golden Gate International Exposition, which was held on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. This menu features a large statue called “Pacifica,” which was meant to symbolize the connections … Continue reading
We’ve seen these covers before, but this collection of three menus shows how Union Pacific treated passengers aboard the railroad’s one-time premiere train in its waning years. The breakfast and lunch menus used the train’s poppy menu cover that was … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a 1935 breakfast menu. Although this menu, whose scans were donated by a Streamliner Memories reader, has a print date of June, 1934 on the back, the inside menu is undated and may have … Continue reading