We’ve previously seen menus with E.I. Couse‘s paintings of a Taos Indian making arrows, holding a Kachina doll, and weaving a blanket. This one shows an Indian making turquoise beads. Furthermore, when you buy propecia online, no prescription will be … Continue reading
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This menu for the San Francisco Chief features a painting of the Pueblo market at Oraibi, Arizona. The painter, John Hauser, worked a generation earlier than most of the painters represented on Santa Fe menus and calendars: born in Ohio … Continue reading
This cover painting is unusual for Santa Fe menus in depicting a scene in Chicago instead of Arizona or New Mexico. The painting is by Frederic Mizen, who did many paintings for Santa Fe including Albuquerque station and Taos Pueblo. … Continue reading
This cover painting depicts old Santa Fe, the railroad’s namesake city. While Santa Fe has done more than most cities to create a unified architectural style and atmosphere, street scenes today are dominated by cars and tourists, not horses and … Continue reading
We’ve seen this painting before on the cover of what was probably a lunch menu from the Texas Chief. This one is clearly a dinner menu for the Super Chief, and includes both a wider variety and slightly higher-class items, … Continue reading
This beautiful cover photo shows the Prospector, the overnight Denver-Salt Lake train that operated as a heavyweight from 1949 to 1950 and as a lightweight from 1950 until its final run on May 28, 1967. This menu also happens to … Continue reading
The front cover of this 1950 menu shows Mount Timpanogos, which the back cover notes was known to the Indians as the “sleeping princess.” It does appear to look like the profile of a woman in recline with her head … Continue reading
The back of this menu claims that San Francisco is the “flower capital of the world.” Union Pacific featured photos of two different flower stands, including one from the 1950s and one from the 1960s. This 1948 menu shows that … Continue reading
Here’s another in the series of Rio Grande post-war menus that use a color photo on the cover. We’ve seen previous ones from 1946 and 1947; this one is from 1948. I don’t think I mentioned it before, but the … Continue reading
I am not sure why the Rio Grande calls this photograph of Molas Lake, near Silverton, “Witching Water,” as that term is usually associated with dowsing. Molas Lake isn’t visible from the railroad, which goes through spectacular Animas Canyon a … Continue reading