The centerfold of this little booklet has room for two simple meals each for breakfast, dinner, and supper, plus some a la carte items. Dinner entrées included lamb chop or egg; supper included bacon and egg or hot vegetable plate. … Continue reading
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At first glance, the winged streamliner cover makes this appear to be one of Union Pacific’s early streamlined train menus. But the inside front cover has a snowflake pattern that gives a Christmas feeling. The table d’hôte menu on page … Continue reading
Here’s a dinner menu to go along with yesterday’s lunch. The cover shows the expo on Treasure Island along with the Bay and Golden Gate bridges, pride in which was the real excuse for the fair. Click image to download … Continue reading
This menu is undated, but the Golden Gate International Exposition took place in 1939 and 1940, so it is from one of those two years. The Federal Building shown on the cover of this menu covered seven acres and had … Continue reading
Most of these Prairie Farmer menus have wrap-around photos, but this one and the one with scenes from Southern California use different photos on the front and back. This one features two scenes from the route of the Sunset Limited. … Continue reading
The road around Crater Lake is close enough to the lake that the only way to get a photo of the entire lake is to use some kind of panoramic camera, a fisheye lens, or leave the road and either … Continue reading
The photo shows a spectacular aerial view of the westbound Overland Limited traversing the Great Salt Lake. Airplanes were still rare enough in 1938 that few people would have ever seen such a view. The Overland left Ogden at 8:20 … Continue reading
Prairie Farmer‘s audience was, obviously, rural. Though WLS was in Chicago, it was a clear channel (meaning no other radio stations operated on its frequency at night), so could be heard for hundreds of miles around. I presume that “supper” … Continue reading
Here’s another breakfast menu from the WLS/Prairie Farmer tour to California. WLS stood for “world’s largest store,” as the radio station was started by Sears Roebuck in 1924. In 1928, it sold the station to Prairie Farmer magazine, which is … Continue reading
This is the first of a series of six menus from a California tour offered by Chicago radio station WLS. Though the menus are undated, other information suggests the tour left Chicago via the Alton on January 30 and returned, … Continue reading