I have looked everywhere but can’t find any menus for the head end lounge car nor observation car on the 20th Century. So my question is other than say nuts or whatever was there a light food offering in these cars? Sandwiches or the like.
The dining car menus are readily available and I think I have every book on those trains but no mention. I do note the pictures only show drinks but I gather they are generally Pullman’s publicity shots with their own staff posing. In one the bar tender is shaking a coctail but the shelves behind him have absolutly nothing on them so they are clearly not representative of the cars at work.
Checkmark by that beer was well-deserved – it was probably worth ordering one just for the ritual that accompanied serving it…
Ah! the anti-theft measures on the modern meal check! I wonder if anyone has carefully studied the various ‘anti-fraud’ measures used by Pullman as it was forcibly evolved from a monopoly into a railroad-owned entity in this period – that logo looks modern.
You might do what Google does for these ‘difficult-to-scan’ items: take several images and process them to reveal different levels of detail or clear text, then provide them all to see. Someone with the time or interest can then ‘data fuse’ parts of the various images to get a readable “example”.
Ah, yes–the ritual that accompanied the serving of beer! …do this; do not even think of doing that… I wish I had my copy of the Pullman manual for buffet lounge car service here (it is in a box at my daughter’s house, and I ask her to do enough for me without asking her to hunt for it and bring it up to me).
My daughter is able to do some of her work in person now, but I have not seen her in more than five weeks (she took me to the Moran Eye Center for the second cataract operation just before the clamp down.)
