Family Fun Night at Disneyland - September 22, 1967

System Development Corporation has its Family Fun Night at Disneyland Forty-one year ago today on September 22, 1967. I believe this is the same System Development Corporation that according to Wikipedia "was arguably the world's first computer software company." (Link)





Also from 1967 (although from early 1967) here is the cover the Vacationland for Winter/Spring 1967. I sure to dig that artwork.






This is the "center-fold" of the Vacationland magazine. Comeback this Bonus Sunday for the complete issue, it's a super one!

Captain EO Premiere Party and Bonus Sunday

WOW, 22 years ago Captain EO Premiered. I only saw this show once, while it was better than "Honey I shrunk the Audience" (tooth extraction is better than that show) it was still weird and left me with a feeling that I must have missed the "point"...








Following up on Fridays post of Busch Garden Florida, here is a souvenir postcard pack from Busch Gardens Los Angeles (Van Nuys). No date, but it looks to be from the opening year of the park. Fond memories.....

Souvenir Saturday - Got a Light?

Let's take a look at some of the Match Books Disneyland and the Disneyland Hotel used to give out. Do they still have matches anywhere in the Disney empire?

The Tobacco Shop of course. Nice shinny cover. All the Disneyland books are blank inside.







I like this one, its got bird (Tiki birds?) on the front and a fun New Orleans Square drawing on the back.







The only book that is dated in the bunch, this is from 1985, simple yet nice.






Here are three books from the Disneyland Hotel.
















Does the Disneyland Hotel still give out matches? I used to use a Telex machine in the 1980's, wow I forgot all about those!

Busch Gardens Florida

Its been a few weeks since we went to Florida, so lets go back for short visit today.

Busch Gardens Florida. I know nothing about it except what you see here on this vintage ticket and brochure. Looks like they had a brewery like the Busch Gardens in Van Nuys, California near where I grew up. Ah the vivid memories of my dad making my mom stand in line to get him free beers once he got his limit!
















The Florida version looks a little nicer than the Van Nuys version.

33rd Annnual Firefighters Private Party at Disneyland

Since September 17, 1993 was 15 years ago (I know, this post is one day late) these tickets are officially "Vintage".

"33rd Annual Firefighters Private Party at Disneyland". These have the typical early nineties style directly from the "Graphic Artists" department using state of the art computers circa 1993.

$20 if you had to pay or...





Complimentary!!!! Free works for me.




The back has the standard stuff about getting your hand stamped for re-entry. What exactly is the fluorescent yellow stuff they stamp your hand with? I bet it's laced with some weird genetically engineered chemical that makes you want to buy Disney merchandise...

Magic Mountain August 1973 - Part 2

If you missed part 1 of this 3 part series, be sure to view it here (link). Thanks again to Dave over at Daveland for getting these magenta gems to shine some color thru again. This was extra nice of Dave considering he hasn’t been to the Mountain in about 30 years! Tatsu is calling your name Dave!

Up first from this set of August 1973 slides is the much photographed Sky Tower. This is an unusual angle, taken from the far north end of the park, not the usual entrance angle.






The bottom right has my beloved Metro Monorail running in all its automatic electric glory. Right up front is the Galaxy double twisty thing and in the distance is Billy the Squid spin and vomit ride, Goliath sits at that spot now.






A couple souvenir prints, (left) The Swiss Twist (recently removed, RIP) with the Galaxy in the background, (right) the Galaxy at night, weeeee.






The Metro Monorail on the right – BRING BACK THE METRO (link). And the great bumper boat ride “El Bumpo”. My grand memories of this ride are slow, unresponsive, hard to steer boats and a smell from that lake that’s hard to describe.






A neat postcard of people trying to have fun on El Bumpo.






Looks like this was mailed in June of 1975. I guess they weren’t impressed with Magic Mountain since they don’t even mention it!






Check out the cars, I want them all! They still use those trams!






Here are a few shots of the Jet Stream. This “modern” flume ride is pretty new here; it was not at the park when it opened in 1971 being added in 1972. I have always liked this ride, it’s still fun today. However, you won’t be going down the left or “west” side anymore, some years back they stopped using that side of the final drop, it’s still there, just not used, why? The Ninja Suspended Roller Coaster changed this view dramatically when it was installed in the 80's.






Valencia grass used to be everywhere at Magic Mountain, it will always be my main memory of the early mountain. (I have no idea if it’s really called “Valencia” grass, that’s just what I call that long wavy grass that doesn’t need to be cut.)






This slide got a little over exposed, but still fun to look at the new Jet Stream Launch tent. This load and unload system uses a turntable like the old people mover ride, super efficient.






From a postcard set, here is the Jet Stream as seen from the ground.






A 1973 “cast member”. I think she’s pretty, is she a waitress?






Here’s a great early Magic Mountain souvenir reflector badge. I wasn’t sure it would scan since you have to tilt it to see both messages, but it scanned ok. “Get high on fun” simple yet to the point, seems much better than “just say no”.






Check back next Wednesday for part 3 from this set.