With more than 18,500 full-time students when this menu was issued in 1950, the University of Southern California was one of the largest colleges in Union Pacific’s menu series and the only private one I’ve found outside of Nebraska. Today, … Continue reading
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Dated May, 1950, these two breakfast menus offer the same seven table d’hôte breakfasts, three plate breakfasts, and numerous a la carte items as the University of Montana menu shown here before. The University of California at Berkeley cover is … Continue reading
The Municipal University of Omaha was originally a private school run by the Presbyterian Church. In 1930, the city of Omaha took it over, then in 1968 it became a state school known as the University of Nebraska Omaha. According … Continue reading
In 1937, the City of Portland route was served by the M-10001, a diminutive train that lacked a full-service kitchen. To make a virtue out of necessity, UP claimed that the truncated dinner menu offered on this train consisted of … Continue reading
This is the first Union Pacific menu I’ve seen in what I call the Moderne series that is not from 1935; though the outside says “Printed in 1935,” the menu inside says “6-16-36.” As near as I can tell, UP … Continue reading
In 1931, travelers visiting southern Utah parks on one of Union Pacific’s all-inclusive tours were offered meals from these small (4-1/3″ x 5-3/4″) menus with a photo on the front. The first menu shows Union Pacific’s lodge in Zion National … Continue reading
This is the only menu in the Art Nouveau series that shows a part of one of Union Pacific’s lodges, even if it is only a wall. There’s good reason for this: the lodge in Bryce is deep in a … Continue reading
This 1968 brochure never once mentions Union Pacific, but the tours it describes appear to be those in the UP Summer Tours booklet. They include tours to California, the Pacific Northwest/Canadian Rockies, Utah-Arizona, Yellowstone, Colorado, and Alaska. Click image to … Continue reading
Southern Pacific was reputed to have excellent dining car service before passenger ridership nosedived after World War II, but you wouldn’t know it from menus such as this one. Printed on flimsy paper, it’s really just an 8-1/2″x11″ sheet folded … Continue reading
The San Francisco Overland Limited was one of Southern Pacific’s premiere trains. Yet this lunch menu is little more than an ordinary sheet of paper, slightly larger than 8-1/2″-by-11″, folded in thirds like a brochure. The menu is undated, but … Continue reading