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Notes from the collector: Note to use of stickers to promote "Special Today" But why three? I"ll have the roast beef at $3.85.

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Notes from the collector: I can't even comment.

Scope and Contents Notes from the collector: Note both the Captain and the Chef get a mention. Note the old company has a new owner, The Pacific Far East Line virtually doing the same run. And this menu dates from October on its way from Nuku'alofa to Wellington. A new menu was printed every day by the two printers aboard. Passengers sat at assigned tables each evening for the entre voyage. So if you embarked at San Francisco and returned to San Francisco you had six weeks (42 days) with...

Scope and Contents Notes from the collector: A very successful restaurant chain started and developed by three hotelies which went nationwide before running into problems. The theme was to do with railroads and three or four old freight cars were joined together to make a very attractive layout. The menu is I believe from the original property in San Francisco close to the Embarcadero. I went to another much larger operation in Universal Studios where the company had brought out from...

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Notes from the collector: An old menu judging by the prices. A classmate Bumps Baldauf was the Manager before he opened his own establishment.

Scope and Contents Notes from the collector: Located on the head of the Old Port about fifty feet from the fishmongers with their fresh catch of seafood. The restaurant was primarily a seafood place and actually had one person going around the dining room helping customers open their oysters, crack their crabs, shell their lobster, etc. It was in 1977, we stayed just yards away at a hotel overlooking the port with a view to the unfolding dramas on the sidewalk. The first night a couple of...

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Notes from the collector: Operated in the Pacific from 1940 to 1965 when it became Air New Zealand. The early planes were flying boats made by the English Company Shorts who were the first company to make production aircraft. My wife's father used to fly on these planes from Wellington or Auckland to Sydney and land at Rose Bay. (my wife's maiden name!) The planes only carried some seventeen passengers but in luxury and style.

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Notes from the collector: A main dining room menu on board our voyage to Alaska and back to Vancouver in 1990. You can see the menu is Day 4 so they had a separate menu for each of the seven days. The back page gives a good summary of Holland American Line.

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Notes from the collector: On board breakfast is served on Monday, the 8th of July 1957. Note Dolly Varden Cakes - somewhat of an institution. A pretty comprehensive menu on a short trip across the Tasman. This was my wife's first time on a ship, but not the last.

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Notes from the collector: The cover page says "Home of the Original Caesar's Salad" If this is correct then this is a treasure. I have no idea where I got this menu nor the date. But it looks like it is from somewhere around the fifties or the sixties. Maybe someone can throw some light on both the origin and the date. The menu is certainly balanced and lively with a wide variety of wines, but none from the northern neighbor.