The cover illustration of Old Faithful is imaginatively colored, but that goes along with some of Burlington’s other advertising in the 1930s. This menu has a code that reads, “7-No-2–43-42-6.” The “42-6” might indicate that this use printed in June … Continue reading
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Although this menu looks a lot like the breakfast and lunch/dinner menus previously shown here, it is significantly smaller: 6×9 rather than 7-1/2×11-1/3. Unlike the food menus, this one isn’t blank on the back, instead using that space to summarize … Continue reading
This menu apparently served for either lunch or dinner. Since the meals on it were “available throughout the day,” someone could even use it to order breakfast. Click image to download a 782-KB PDF of this menu. Black sildenafil espaƱa … Continue reading
North Coast Limited dining car menus were printed on glossy card stock. This isn’t quite as fancy, but the textured paper is very nice. Click image to download a 709-KB PDF of this menu. Eating right, exercising regularly, getting enough … Continue reading
In addition to dining cars, Northern Pacific (and many other railroads) also operated “lunchrooms” in many of its train stations for the benefit of employees and the general public. In 1944, when this menu was published, NP had lunchrooms in … Continue reading
In 1957, Great Northern decided to get out of the hotel business and leased Glacier Park hotels to the Knutson Hotel Corporation, a Minnesota company founded by Don Knutson. GN wanted Knutson to not only manage the hotels but to … Continue reading
This menu is not from my collection, but it is so pretty I wanted to include it anyway. It is undated, but based on the style and prices I’d say it is from the early 1930s. While some 1920s breakfast … Continue reading
This 1930 menu takes the art nouveau border used on other railroad menus to an extreme, making the border itself the main focus of the cover, with the small graphic incidentally illustrating what is presumably a Canadian National steamship. The … Continue reading
As this one illustrates, Canadian Pacific’s postwar menus differed in several way from the prewar versions. While the subject matter was often the same, the postwar menus used real color photographs printed using the four-color process. The photos were positioned … Continue reading
We’ve seen these three menu covers before, but they came with yesterday’s Royal Train menu, so I’m including them here together. All four menus were used on an American Express Banner Tour. Click image to download a 1.10-MB PDF of … Continue reading