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Menu: Lackawanna Railroad. "The Phoebe Snow." Buffet Menu. Dated March 25, 1960.
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Menu: Lackawanna Railroad. De Luxe Daylight Streamliner " The Phoebe Snow " Between New York and Buffalo. Buffet Menu. Dated March 25, 1960.
Printed folio gloss cover stock, 6-1/2" wide x 10" high, [4] pp; 2 punched holes at right on cover (apparently for a file binder); ink notation on cover for date: 3/25/60.
This menu was not for the single date, but was printed or first used on March 25, 1960 (the date also appears printed at the bottom left of page [2]).
Food service including this menu was managed from Hoboken (the eastern rail terminus for the train even though it states "New York" - ferry was required to and from N.Y. via Hoboken.) Listed is: J.R. Meredith, Dining Car Service, Hoboken, N.J.
The cover has an artist's depiction of the train at the Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken; it is is a fantasy view with the Manhattan skyline across the Hudson River and the terminal itself not in the view except for distant passenger platform shed.
It is likely among the last printed with the names Lackawanna Railroad and Phoebe Snow on it (there may have been later summer or fall menus.) In October 1960, the Lackawanna - Erie merger went into effect and subsequently it was called the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. That year was also the end of the Phoebe Snow as a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad train, but it was to return in 1963 for short period under the Erie-Lackawanna.
2013.005.0208
2013.005
Lukacs, Claire
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Museum Collections. Gift of a Friend of the Museum.
1960 - 1960
Date(s) Created: 1960 Date(s): 1960
Good
Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2013-08-16