City Of Los Angeles, COLA 16 Pullman Standard Cafe-Lounge - Mission Inn

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Interior Color Charts

Cafe-Lounge - "Mission Inn"

Pullman Standard delivered the two Cafe-Lounge cars "Mission Inn" (assigned to City Of Los Angeles) and "Hacienda" (assigned to City Of San Francisco) in 1942. The Pullman General Specification for lot 6635 describes the colors as listed in the table below. All colors for this car were to be provided by Sherwin-Williams and the numbers should be the S-W numbers.

Detailed Chart

As always, the colors that were used are not easy to determine anymore. What follows is a guess until (and if) I can locate authentic Sherwin-Williams color samples.

Area			Color	Sample	Paint	Accuracy
Lounge Room and Cafe Section
	Ceiling		Blue per sample CH-1841			Guess
	Frieze Panels		Zebrawood Flexwood (Flitch #9056)			Guess
	Pier Panels		Gold tint Mirrors
Dining Section
	Pier Panels		Clear Mirrors
Lounge and Cafe Section
	Wainscoting	Imitation Leather	L.C. Chase #5518			Guess
	Floor	Carpet	Mandel Bros. Blue #2			Guess
	Seat Covering	Lounge Section	12 chairs: Collins and Aikman's Tacoma Blue #S-12029-1			Guess
			4 settees: L.C. Chase's Tacoma Copper #8730-P-4283			Guess
			1 desk chair: same as settee			Guess
			Card section: same as settee			Guess
		Cafe Section	16 chairs: Eagle-Ottawa's Blue BC-93			Guess
		Cafe Section	8 chairs: Eagle-Ottawa's Copper TMS AD7			Guess
	Window Shades	Interior	Cheney Bros. #9796-1 Repp pattern Rose			Guess
	Window Shades	Exterior	Aluminum Pantasote #2798-18		Aluminum foil	Close Enough
	Draperies	Both sections	Moss Rose #12243, color 70, blue and brown			Guess
	Portieres	Dining Section	Moss Rose #12243, color 70, blue and brown			Guess
	Window Capping	Both Sections	Caf-O-Lite, copper to match 9302			Guess
	End Door	Lounge end	Medium blue, sample CH-1843			Guess
Passageway, Kitchen End
	Ceiling		Light Apricot per sample			Guess
	Wall		Medium Apricot per sample			Guess
	Base		Dark Apricot per sample			Guess
	Floor covering	Lobby at Pantry	Textone unglazed ceramic, red			Guess
	Floor covering	Kitchen Passageway	Wingfoot rubber to match Armstrong #017 reddish brown			Guess
	Window shades	Interior	Copper and blue, Lussky, White and Coolidge, pattern #15366-D			Guess
	Window shades	Exterior	Aluminum Pantasote #2798-18		Aluminum foil	Close Enough
	Swing Door	Kitchen Passageway	Medium Apricot per sample CH-1835			Guess
	End Door	Kitchen Passageway	Dark Apricot per sample CH-1836			Guess
	Window Capping		Caf-O-Lite, Terra Cotta to match #25			Guess
	Stewart's Desk Top		Formica, blue H-5197			Guess

City of Los Angeles, 16th Train, 1950

Interior Color Charts

Cafe-Lounge - "Mission Inn"

Detailed Chart

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