The steamboat on this menu no doubt represents New Orleans, the eastern terminus of the Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited. In 1937, a similar steamboat was operating between San Francisco and Sacramento in competition with SP trains, but Southern Pacific advertising … Continue reading
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This is the last menu I have from the silhouette series and appropriately it is a dinner menu dated September, 1937. The cover features a wind-swept pine overlooking Monterey Bay. Click image to download a 1.1-MB PDF of this menu. … Continue reading
Here’s a breakfast menu that features a Cascade Mountain scene on the cover. It’s probably supposed to represent Mount Shasta, though Shasta doesn’t really look like that. It could also be Odell Lake, though again the mountains behind it don’t … Continue reading
The cactus on this menu is meant to represent Phoenix and other Arizona resorts reached by Southern Pacific trains. Specifically, it looks a little like a scene from Saguaro National Park near Tucson. Click image to download a 1.0-MB PDF … Continue reading
In contrast with yesterday’s, the silhouette on today’s menu is easy to recognize: California redwoods. When its passenger trains still took the Siskiyou Route from Portland to Oakland via Medford, Southern Pacific offered bus tours to the redwoods via Pacific … Continue reading
This is the first in a series of menus that feature a silhouette of some scene along the SP. The menu cover is narrower than page three so a colored stripe on the righthand side of page three that designates … Continue reading
Here are a couple of postcard menus from Union Pacific’s lodges in Bryce and Grand Canyon national parks. Guests were welcome to tear off the postcard and mail it to their friends. Fortunately, whoever collected these menus didn’t do that. … Continue reading
Two months ago, I listed this as a missing menu, but I recently acquired a copy and decided to post it now before leaving Union Pacific items. As I noted then, the photograph is surprisingly similar to one on a … Continue reading
In 1961, guests at Union Pacific’s Utah Parks Company lodges enjoyed these postcard lunch menus. The top of the menu could be torn off and mailed as a postcard, thus doing double duty in advertising the lodges. Click image to … Continue reading
This Sun Valley menu doesn’t have a date, but judging from the prices it is from the late 1960s. It also doesn’t mention Union Pacific anywhere except in tiny letters for the photo credit, which would confirm it is from … Continue reading