Family Circle - March 1968

Welcome to Magazine Monday. This posts featured magazine, Family Circle is by most accounts the number one selling women's magazine in America. Founded in 1932, today the Family Circle is considered one of the "seven sisters," a group of seven women-oriented magazines, with the others being Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, Good Housekeeping, Better Homes and Gardens, Woman's Day, and Redbook.

This issue is from March 1968 and "Family Circle goes to Disneyland"!






The photos all appear to be a little moody and dark, I think that's how they were intended or maybe the ink and paper have altered their reflective properties over the past 41 years? I tried to lighten them up a bit, so they look a little washed out.






Interesting choice to showcase the roof tops of Fantasyland. What is that huge truck doing in the castle courtyard, didn't they know Family Circle was talking pictures?






Neat photo of the Mark Twain with the light/rainbow effect. I tried to paste these two pages together, forget it, they look better separate.







Several more page of text-only follow. You'll notice the focus is on the New Tomorrowland.

There are not many interesting articles in this issue, well I guess if you are a housewife in 1968 maybe they would interest you. Here's some fun ideas for birthday party foods. That cake looks cool!






Kid-Proof Furniture. Boy do I recall these styles, honestly, I really miss them.





Are you ready for some classic advertisements from a simpler time? The 1950's are know as simpler times too, but by 1968, simple had become classic, I really dig each of these ads, where did we go wrong in the last couple decades?

Let's start with some food! Good old Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. How many of us had this as our official "I cooked it myself" first meal? I did.






Neat layout for Nabisco's Premium Saltines. The soup however is reminding me of a little girl named Regan MacNeil.






WOW, now that's a cheeseburger!






Can someone please explain to me where in the heck did Wonder Bread go? A couple years ago it just disappeared off the store shelves, I want it back! Oh boy, Hostess Fruit Pies, still a weakness of mine to this day. Lemon is to die for...






Better wash all this food down with some Milk! Hey, they did celebrity "Milk" ads even back in 1968! George Gobel cracks me up.






For those who may be lactose intolerant, how about some Orange Juice, "It's not just for breakfast anymore" Oh wait, wrong Orange Juice tag line.






How pretty.





Who remembers Madge??? She always seemed like such a cool lady to me, check out her dialog in this ad, I can just hear here voice now "It softens hands while you do dishes, you're soaking in it now".






Oh, I want these!





Quisp! I lived on that stuff until the summer of '73 when my mom went all health food crazy, crunchy granola sweet on us.

Amusement Business Magazine

Welcome to Magazine Monday. I hope everyone has been enjoying Magazine Monday’s. Most of the magazines so far have been standard PR stuff in nationally known magazines. While I do have some of those types of magazines still to post, it's time to get down to the odd & obscure, and I got plenty of that!

This May 20th, 1967 edition of Amusement Business features a short but sweet article on the recently opened Pirates of the Caribbean. By short I mean two pages and one of them is this cover so enjoy it.






“Walt Disney’s “living” legacy, Disneyland at Anaheim, Calif.” Interesting how just 6 months after Walt’s passing he was already a “legacy”.  Jazz trumpeter Teddy Buckner and his group are on hand to and “expected to remain for the summer, at least”. According to Wikipedia (link), he stayed until 1981!






In the current events section there is another mention of Disneyland! The New Tomorrowland concept art looks great even in black & white.






Six Flags Over Georgia open June 16th! Check out that Von Roll gondola for the Sky Ride. 82 feet in the air is too high for me, the Skyway at Disneyland was my limit (actually, it was over my limit, but the view was worth the terror).






“Chance or skill” looks like someone got in trouble! Neat ’67 Mustang.





Now for some vintage advertisements. These are industry specific so they may be a little boring. Universal Design Limited made some funky rides! Did this company build Nara Dreamland (link)?






Allan Herschell Mouse Rides - WOW!






Astro-turf type stuff for the miniature gold courses’. It must be good, look at those fancy chemicals!






These classified ads are pretty cool, look - used train cars!!!!






Last up (and not from the magazine) are a couple of photos of the “Royal Street Bachelors”. This first one is from a Disneyland Souvenir book from the early ‘80’s.






This is from a Pana-Vue souvenir slide (VP 70-50) that amazingly has not faded. It’s undated of course. Daveland has a photo of the gents from 1968 (link). Do they still play at N.O.S.?

Look Magazine - November 2, 1954

Welcome to Magazine Monday. “Look”ing way back to November 2, 1954, this issue of Look Magazine has an early article on that new idea called “Disneyland”.





There are no construction or attraction photos in this article, just the big map Walt used to sell the idea of Disneyland. I tried to put the two pages into one file, but it just wasn’t working so I gave up. If you want to assemble them yourself, the full size high resolution scans can be downloaded here (Left Side/63mb – Right Side/67mb).







Talk of “International Street” way back then! From the description, it sounds like what became World Showcase at Epcot.






Stock photos.






“For teachers and pupils to discover greater ways of understanding and education” Interesting. There sure was a lot of focus on the midget horses in these old articles. Do you suppose that’s really Frontierland in the lower left photo? I’m thinking it's the Studio Lot. Nice Toaster!






There’s a bunch of great articles in this magazine, but there are even better advertisements so I just picked out a couple of the articles. This one reminds me of the Upjohn Pharmacy at Disneyland!






“The Americanized Pizza” I love pizza and they sure are making it look fun too!






There were so many amazing vintage ads in this issue it was hard to narrow them down to just these few. Let’s start of with some celebrity endorsements. Debbie Reynolds didn’t even get off the floor to sell these fine Lane Cedar Chests.






I’m not sure I would buy a shirt from this guy, it might explode when you put it on, I hear he can be quite the Joker!






Elizabeth Taylor selling Lustre-Crème Shampoo is looking mighty nice.






As a vintage telephone collector, this ad makes me weak in the knees. “Colors”, “Spring Cords”, “plug in phone” and a “Telephone answering set”, those ideas are crazy!






This Sugar Crisp ad is just marvelous, how fun!






These Maytag Advance Automatics look “tank tough” I bet there are still some in service.






How about a few vices’ for our last ads? Smoking is bad, don’t do it, it’s gross, what are you crazy? That said, WOW, check out this lady, she is so pretty and trendy looking, no wonder people thought smoking was cool, she's stunning.





Back to my alternate universe, this is me on European Vacation.






And this is me at home relaxing with Spot taking a rest on the carpet!

Jack and Jill - Triple Bonus

Welcome to Magazine Monday. It's triple bonus Magazine Monday featuring three separate issues of Jack and Jill Magazine. Jack and Jill, a Curtis Magazine for young children 7 to 10. Amazingly, Jack and Jill started in 1938 and is still in publication (subscriptions were suspended during World War II due to paper shortages) Check out some of the newer covers here (link) you can even get a current subscription.

Up first today it's Jack and Jill from May 1960 and features Kevin Corcoran in front of the Disneyland Castle with the three little pigs.






The article “In Disneyland with Kevin Corcoran” follows “Moochie” around Disneyland. City Hall looks the same today, however today’s Mickey and Minnie are distant cousins from these mice.






The photos are neat, the little drawings are even better…






Kevin is finding all kinds of things to do at Disneyland. The park appears to be rather empty or maybe no one has noticed it's “Moochie”!!!






Where is that fake tree, the Art Corner? The little dude has three hats!!! Moochie’s got the whole Autopia to himself.





The May 1960 Scans above were donated to the blog by “Anonymous”, thanks! There are no advertisements because Jack and Jill did not accept outside advertizing until 1962.

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The next issue is from June 1966 and has a charming clown cover. "Do you want it!” (“IT” fans know what I’m talking about). Does anyone really like clowns?






There’s “New Magic in Disneyland” Direct from the New York Worlds Fair (minus the Tower of the Four Winds sign) It’s a Small World, After All. Is there someone standing in the “Welcoming Banner” photo? I say it’s Walt.






This is just a three page article, but still some fun vintage photos nonetheless. Please sing “Summer Fun”, it will put a smile on your face.






This Mattel advertisement is weird. Now I know where Disneyland got the idea for the Big Heads in “America on Parade”. I’m guessing these did not catch on, I sure don’t remember them being around in early 70’s. I do remember “Weebles”, you know, “they wobble but they don’t fall down”.






Color Magic, hey this looks kind of cool (for girls that is).





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The third issue of Jack and Jill is from May 1967 and has a friendly (and hungry) looking raccoon on the cover.






In this issue “Mickey Visits Disneyland” an "Exclusive for Jack and Jill". Mickey sure does get around! I’m guessing it's Paul Castle in that Mickey Costume, he played Mickey Mouse from 1961 to 1986. Check out this article about Paul (link).






Mickey stayed clear of Tomorrowland, the “New Tomorrowland 67” was just a month or two away, but not photo ready yet.






Expo ’67 has some groovy artwork.






Talk about groovy artwork, the entire look of the “Flower Man” rings a distant bell way back in my head; being a toddler in the late 60’s was weird.






Several of the Jack and Jill issues feature “My father is a ____” articles. This month the father was a Helicopter Pilot and the story is told from his son’s point of view. Not Disney related, but I like it and thought it would be nice to share.