New York Central Vintage Menu James Whitcomb Riley
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is a great vintage name train menu of which I have only seen a few down through the years. The dinner menu offered her is very interesting with such great graphics and coloration and is certainly one of the nicest issues of streamliner railroad menus and this one is in great shape too. The menu is from one of New York Central's crack flyer - ''The James Whitcomb Riley'' of which was put into service between Cincinnati * Indianapolis* Lafayette* Chicago and I believe to be circa forties to very early fifties era. This beautiful (semi - glossy) cardstock menu measures a little over 10'' inches x 7'' inches and consists of 4 pages of which all are intact and showing virtually no usage. The interior reads ''The James Whitcomb Riley" ***** Dining Car Service with an extensive array of superb NYC cuisine to be offered. The center part of the menu even features ''The 20th Century Salad Bowl (remember, they were competing with SP's salad bowl combination with rye krisp). Dinner then was only $1.00 and cordials only 60 cents, incredible!!!!!.The back of the menu is also quite interesting with some information on, of course, ''The James Whitcomb Riley'' and then some really quite charming little rhyms or poems (40's humor) that you will remember.The menu is excellent to near mint to mint with sparkling cardstock just a slight indication of
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