Monday, January 2, 2012

This Week Magazine - April 15, 1956

Welcome to Magazine Monday (and welcome back to some new posts!).  This weeks magazine is "This Week Magazine" from April 15, 1956.  Janet Leigh graces the cover a few years before she goes Psycho!




The Disneyland article is short and just one little photo but its full of interesting information on the less than a year old park.  Bennett Cerf took a few minutes away from "Whats my Line" to write this for us.  A model of a giant chair-lift that will take you from one end of the park to the other! And what vintage Disneyland article is worth posting unless it contains a reference to Sardinian Donkey's Monkey's!




Those are some of the coolest clothes ever!




I'm hungry....




Plastic Wall Tile; I wonder how it looks 55 years later?


4 comments:

  1. It's kind of interesting to see how, by the 1950's, people thought that Walt Disney had always been wildly successful, when in fact his studio struggled to stay alive for over a decade, and was deeply in debt.

    Was there ever really a "chair lift" concept, or did Bennett Cerf not get the idea of Skyway buckets?I was all set to read about Sardinian monkeys, but it turns out they are really donkeys!

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  2. This is the first I've ever heard a story about donkeys... and really,isn't purchasing them 15 before need a little premature? I mean, how long do donkeys live?

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  3. Plastic wall tile will not look good 55 years later. Here to say this.

    Thanks VDT for a year's worth of entertainment. Happy new year.

    JG

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  4. Thank you for the good writeup. It in fact was a amusement account it. Look advanced to far added agreeable from you! By the way, how could we communicate?

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