Here are three menus whose covers we’ve seen before but which offer different menus on the inside. First is a 1963 City of Los Angeles dinner menu with Sun Valley’s golf course on the cover, which we previously saw on … Continue reading
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I was surprised to find this menu as I had never seen one like it before. No doubt there are still others not on my checklist, which now has 124 confirmed menu covers in the color wrap-around photo series, 115 … Continue reading
This was on my 2016 list of missing menus, so I’m glad I was able to find it. The interior menu has a code in the lower right that says, “DEN SC 17-18 1E-2W 5-63.” I’m not sure what that … Continue reading
In the past year, I’ve only managed to add three new color, wrap-around photo menus to my collection. Two of them, including this one, aren’t even on my missing menus list. Although I call this the Dude Ranch menu, it … Continue reading
Here’s my second menu in the short-lived “Modern” series, which used the photos from the previous “Art Nouveau” series but replaced the busy background with a clean white space and a few blue pinstripes. (My other menu in this series … Continue reading
Today is the fifth anniversary of the birth of Streamliner Memories. For the last several years, I’ve celebrated this anniversary by posting any Union Pacific menus I’ve acquired in the last year. Unfortunately, this year I only have five new … Continue reading
This menu doesn’t have a date, but the prices look like the 1950s. Rather than a table d’hôte section, the menu offers five plate dinners along with some a la carte items. The plate dinners include haddock, half a fried … Continue reading
One more menu from November, 1947 shows Salt Lake City’s Temple Square on the cover. The back cover gushes about Brigham Young’s wisdom and foresight in leading the Latter Day Saints to Salt Lake a century before the menu was … Continue reading
At 12,965 feet (the menu says 12,863 but the estimates must have been revised), Mount Sopris is one of Colorado’s shorter mountains. I may be wrong, but I don’t think it was visible from any Rio Grande train. Click image … Continue reading
For more than a decade after Amtrak took over most passenger trains, the Rio Grande continued to serve passengers dinners in style, with cloth tablecloths (all marked California Zephyr), heavy china (made for the Rio Grande Zephyr, and silverware. This … Continue reading