The Union Station Restaurant, later called Hayden House Restaurant, provided fine, hearty meals for weary travelers, civic clubs and drop-in patrons.  The restaurant had a lunch counter and formal dining area.  It later added a cocktail lounge. 

In 1935, a sirlion steak dinner with salad, baked potato and a beverage cost $1.25.  An equivalent meal thirty years later could be purchased for $3.00.

Today, The Swanson Gallery serves as a ballroom for a variety of special events, receptions, banquets, meetings and more.  The room remains an architectural fascination featuring the beautifully restored Art Deco architecture.

The walls are simulated Italian Travertine stone trimmed in painted silver leaf and imitation patent leather.  The gallery also features a series of six murals that illustrate different stages of transportation during that time.  G. Stanley Underwood, the architect of Union Station, planned the murals and J.W. Keller, a Los Angelo's artist, painted them.

The first mural depicts a cowboy riding the range when cattle were still the west's chief industry and before miles of prairie had been fenced.  The second mural includes an Indian transporting his belongings while riding a horse, and the third shows an old fashioned wood burning locomotive.  The fourth mural features an ox team and covered wagon.  The fifth represents the building of the first transcontinental railroad line, and the finally mural is a group of cowboys and oxen that symbolize the cattle raising industry of the west.