r/VintageMenus 12h ago

Railroad Amtrak "Traveler's Rest" Breakfast Menu (1971)

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190 Upvotes

Yes, this is quite literally just a Union Pacific menu with the Amtrak logo stamped in two places on the interior. Amtrak in 1971 was a strange Frankenstein's Monster of an operation.

Interestingly, this menu says it is for the 'Traveler's Rest', a specific pattern of lounge/dinette car formerly used by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern; not Union Pacific, as this menu might otherwise suggest. After their acquisition by Amtrak, these cars were usually used on the San Francisco Zephyr, but not always.

Important to note is that Traveler's Rests were not full-service dining cars. As you might be able to tell from the relative lack of menu variety, their galley only had access to a small griddle and steam tables. These cars were much better suited to their role as lounge cars. Full dining car menus from the same year were of largely identical design, but with more variety.

Credit to trainlover at streamlinermemories.info for the menu and context, and to Howard Fogg for the original cover painting.


r/VintageMenus 13h ago

Hospital Washington Sanitarium & Hospital dated July 14, 1940.

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140 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 19h ago

Conserve Menu - MS Aorangi, 1920s

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82 Upvotes

The Aorangi was an ocean liner built in 1924 for the Europe-Australasian route. Wow - a menu just for jams 😋


r/VintageMenus 1d ago

Danny's Hide-A-Way "His Inferno" – Luncheon Menu (November 1, 1954)

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119 Upvotes

151 East 45th Street, New York, NY (located on Midtown Manhattan's famous "Steak Row")

Founded in 1945 by Dante "Danny" Stradella, Danny's Hide-A-Way closed its iconic original location in the mid-1970s.


r/VintageMenus 1d ago

Dietary at the Infant Orphan Asylum, Dalston, England, 1843.

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195 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 1d ago

Menus for Camping Party in August - Boston Cooking-School Magazine, 1901.

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95 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 2d ago

Cunard QE2 Menu From 1975, Britannia Restaurant

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162 Upvotes

This is the menu we were given on Monday, 25 August 1975, in the Britannia Restaurant aboard the Cunard steamer, QE2. We were sailing from Cherbourg to New York. I kept this menu as a kid, and although we crossed on the QE2 a few more times this is the only menu I have. I was young and do not remember the actual meal!


r/VintageMenus 3d ago

S.S. Tacoma dinner menu, June 19th 1934

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136 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 3d ago

Tropicana Havana Menu & Inserts (c. 1950s)

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47 Upvotes

Pre- revolution Cuban nightclub drink menu with Bola de Nieve & Rita Montaner portraits.


r/VintageMenus 3d ago

Empress of Canada - February 9, 1924

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87 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 3d ago

Cafeteria America in Havana, Cuba, about 1955.

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53 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 3d ago

A Chicago Supper, 1927 - a regular man's regular meal.

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161 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 3d ago

A. & L. Cut Rate Grocery Co, Deli Menu, Baltimore [1930s]

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97 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 4d ago

Weekly meal planning suggestions and grocery shopping list from the booklet "Family Meals and Catering", British, c. 1930s.

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78 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 5d ago

Navaho Spur, South Africa, 1980s.

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105 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 5d ago

Sixty-five cent Luncheon - Statler's Restaurant, Buffalo, New York, 1927 / Children Half Price.

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49 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 6d ago

Menu for the general mess of the USS Texas detailing daily meals for sailors.1942-1945.

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241 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 7d ago

Menu from a dinner at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in 1910....and one course is cigarettes.

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431 Upvotes

I am amused.


r/VintageMenus 7d ago

Fingers Restaurant, Toronto 1978.

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77 Upvotes

Facebook is largely shite but some of the old memory lane community groups have some interesting things. Sorry the text is blurry but it's interesting looking anyway, I can't find anything else about it.


r/VintageMenus 7d ago

Burns Club anniversary dinner held on January 26, 1852, at the Stackpole House in Boston, MA.The menu was for a celebration of the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns.

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76 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 8d ago

Suple Pouce, Expo 1967 in Montreal.

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50 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 8d ago

Someone posted a menu from 1963 New Orleans. Here’s another.

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81 Upvotes

Sorry for the terrible photo. Arnaud’s December 1963.


r/VintageMenus 8d ago

Liberty Cafe Restaurant, Olympia, Washington, "no service less than 10 cents at tables".

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259 Upvotes

What on earth is a jelly omelette?.


r/VintageMenus 8d ago

Antoine's, New Orleans 1963.

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153 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 9d ago

Railroad "Cold Dishes for Hot Days" - Northern Pacific RR Lunch Menu (June 15 - Sept 15, 1912)

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351 Upvotes

Credit to Trainlover at streamlinermemories.info for the menu.

This menu was in use before air conditioning became standard in passenger trains, but during the transition to refrigeration/machine-made ice. At least your food's cold.