Mega Holiday Weekend - Bonus Sunday

From Monday's post (link) this is the Map on the reverse side of the "Southern California Freeway System and Points of Interest" brochure from 1980.

Knott's Map High Resolution - 6mb

As promised in Tuesday's post "2 Exciting New Plans to Visit Disneyland in 1957" (link) here is the entire 1957 Disneyland Guide. Lots of great stuff in here.

Complete 1957 Disneyland Guide - 51mb

Wednesday was the 1973 Boys Life visit to Walt Disney World (link). Here is the Entire Walt Disney World Guide from 1973.

Complete Walt Disney World Guide 1973 - (22mb)




Thursdays post was a look way back to Disneyland in Life magazine August 15, 1955 (link). For my good friend Richard over at Viewliner Ltd., here is the cover featuring "The MacArthur Story". Also, here is the entire article.

Complete August 1955 "The MacArthur Story" article- 30mb

Here's an article from the May 2008 Edition of Westways, the AAA magazine. I do miss the "old" smell of the trains, but the new smell is kinda neat too, especially if you're hungry.

Today's Mega Holiday Bonus Sunday post will have to last for two days, the blog will be closed for Memorial Day, have a great holiday, see you back on Tuesday.

Kodak Camera Tour of Disneyland - 1963

Last Saturday's post featured a 1956 Kodak Tour of Disneyland pamphlet (link). Today's Kodak Tour of Disneyland is from August 1963, "Kodak Pamphlet No. C-38"

The style of artwork sure did change from 1956. The size of the pamphlet changed too! It's about 8" by 10" and just a simple "tri-fold", no fancy foldout as in the 1956 version.





The artwork on the map is "different". Monstro looks hungry!






Neat Tomorrowland picture, far-out spaceman with fun balloons and .19¢ a yard fencing!





While I feel most of the artwork on this pamphlet is just "ok", I really like the little designs on the back page.





Tomorrow: Is Mega Holiday Weekend Bonus Sunday including, but not limited to; Complete Guides - Disneyland 1957, Disneyworld 1973; Big Stylized Knott's Map 1980, Green Disneyland?

Indiana Jones & Disneyland Hong Kong

Today's post it an odd mix of new things, welcome to the way my mind works.

Up first a few new items from Disneyland to commemorate the opening of the new Indiana Jones Movie. This flyer was being handed out in the parking lot. It talks about the Adventure Map game which I did not get. It was getting crowded and the weather was turning very "Texas". I got out before I could find an "Adventure Map". If someone has one, please scan it for me. (Update - here's the map from Disneyland Website: Link)






A new "Your Guide to Disneyland", the last cover was the super Matterhorn shot, now this nice one! The art department is on a roll.






Indy FastPass. I didn't hang out to use it. By not using it did I take away someone else's chance at a fast pass or did I make the standby line move faster? "Sorry" or "Your welcome".






Now to travel 1/2 way around the world and at Christmas time yet, how unrelated to Indy could this be? Disneyland Hong Kong, I think this is from last Christmas (correction, its from 1999), hey only $650 for an annual pass!







High resolution copy of the map here (link - 12mb)





This map was 19 inches long so even in the BIG scanner the legend has to be scanned separate.






Rules and Regulations. Seems a little more of a tight ship than Anaheim, not really a bad thing necessarily.





Tomorrow: Another Camera Tour of Disneyland, this time in 1963.

Disneyland in Life - August 15, 1955

Staying with yesterday’s “Magazine” themed post, today let’s set the way back machine to August 15, 1955. This is a four page article on Disneyland from Life Magazine. I didn’t scan the cover; it has no Disneyland references and has a not so flattering photo of General MacArthur.

Interesting how only four pages were dedicated to this Disneyland article. MacArthur gets 25 pages and an article on a 1950’s house wife “The 80-hour work week” gets 10 pages! I guess Disneyland was still not a “sure thing” just a few weeks after its opening, therefore if only gets four pages. And it’s very “light” on the text.

First up, the Tea Cups with no paint on the deck! That’s the “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party” to be more precise.







Next some shots of from the river boat as they “Circle Jungle Island”? The Castle shot slides over to the other page so I tried to include the whole castle in this scan. Notice the castle windows, you can see straight thru them! I don’t think I have ever noticed that in any of the old photos. Obviously this went away when they created the “walk thru” which by the way, I hear rumors it may be coming back!!!






Children’s Saloon? I suppose that’s because they don’t sell alcohol? Those Coke fountains sure look neat! Notice a few things on the Casey Jr. Ride; Nice landscaping for the Canal Boats! Is that a TV camera on a raised platform thing? If so, was this for the opening day broadcast? I thought Casey Jr. didn’t open for about a week after Disneyland opened so what’s up with the camera?





Lots O’ Indians in this picture, real ones! Interesting “Buckboard” ride, I don’t think I’ve seen that on any tickets! Not much to hold the guests in, better hold on tight.






This Life magazine is FULL of great 1955 car ads. I am a vintage car nut, I used to buy and sell them like trading cards, I am much better now. But I sure love looking at these old ads. Since I am mostly a GM fan, the first three are beauties by GM. Then a Mercury, Nash and a Studebaker. I guess Chrysler was not up to spending the advertising dollars to be in Life Magazine.


My first car was a 1956 Buick Super 4-door Riviera hardtop, very much like this 1955 Buick Century.










Even the ink pens were “car crazy” in 1955. Styled in Multimillion-dollar new car colors.






I thru this large two page “Dan River” ad in just because I like it. I’m told the 1950’s really weren’t this fun; it’s just the way everyone wanted it to be. Maybe that wasn’t a bad thing; at least they “wanted” it to be idealistic. Today, I am not so sure….

Boys Life - July 1973

Taking another magazine look at Walt Disney World today we present “Boys Life” (not to be confused with “Nuns Life”) from July 1973. “Boys Life is a magazine published by the Boy Scouts of America. Its targeted readership is young American males between the ages of 6 and 18.”

It’s an interesting article, told from “your” perspective about a trip to the Magic Kingdom. The scans are not slanted, the article itself is slanted! I did the best I could, just tilt your head a little as you read.










I used to study these ads with much care. Even as a kid I knew there had to be a catch to these ads. I’m guessing that selling greeting cards door to door in 1973 might not be as easy as you would think.






Since we are in 1973 and at Walt Disney World, how about a book full of tickets? June 1973.






$5.75, just a few coins higher than Disneyland. Now including 8 adventures, up one from the original 7 in 1971.




Attraction List.






Information Guide for Summer/Fall 1973. Check back on Bonus Sunday for the full guide. (Yes I have already posted a complete WDW 1974 Information Guide, but who knows what changes occurred in a whole year?)

2 Exciting New Plans to Visit Disneyland - 1957

2 Exciting New Plans to Visit Disneyland in 1957. Here’s a fun little pamphlet and I do mean little, its around 4 ¼” by 5 ¼”. A Winter Bonus Plan sounds fun since its been hot here the last few days.





First time for the special guest cards, good to note.






Yes I tried that phone number all night; it’s constantly busy. I guess lots of people are still responding to these great offers. For those younger folks, KEYSTONE would be "KE" or "53" on the Dial, so the number is 535-8171, in the 714 area code of course...






Back of a 1957 Adult Ticket book.






This 1957 book only has one “B” ticket left. I think I’ll use it at the Main Street Shooting Gallery.






Speaking of Shooting Galleries, here is a link to some GREAT photo’s from 1958. These are from “Nick Dewolf’s” collection (link). This photo is from the Frontierland shooting gallery set (link), which would open sometime in 1957. Has anyone ever seen the inside of the Main Street Shooting Gallery? Please share.....






Here are some "Special Bonus Tickets" to go with your ticket book purchase. The expiration dates are 15 days off from the pamphlet date, but close enough.






Here are the “Special Guest Cards” for the big spenders.







As I was looking for some COLOR for this post I figured, how about the cover from the official 1957 “A Complete Guide to Disneyland”! Check back this Bonus Sunday for the “Complete Guide” (the inside is in better shape than the cover).