Bonus Sunday

Welcome to Bonus Sunday. From Friday's Vintage TV Guide post, here is the entire TV Guide from January 8-14, 1955.


TV Guide January 8-14, 1955 - 66mb





From Wednesday's post (link) here is the compelte Vacationland from the Summer of 1980.


Vacationland Summer 1980 - 55mb

Disneyland Album - TV Guide January 1955 - Part 2

From January 8-14, 1955, this TV Guide has part two of a four part series called “Disneyland Album”. You can see part one from last weeks post here (link). Check back next Friday for part three.

Arthur Godfrey sure was popular in the 1950’s, here’s a great Normal Rockwell portrait of Godfrey on the cover.






“As we see it” Just think, before TV everyone was “running in all directions vainly seeking amusement”… And the TV Teletype – New York page: "Sammy Davis Jr. will do his first TV entertaining since his recent auto accident”.






Here are the Disneyland pages, Fantasyland – Second of a Series. I know, these really have very little to do with Disneyland the park, take it up with TV Guide!






Something for the girls - Hair-Do’s Ahead. Channel listing for New York City – January 1955.






Wednesday’s listing showing the Disneyland TV show, part 2 of Treasure Island. There were a total of four shows in Color for the entire week (hey, that's twice last weeks count); two of them are on this page!






Friday night’s listings, for those of you who are only a couple of decades old, TV used to simply end late at night, the screen went to static and snow for several hours. The static and snow was actually more entertaining than some late night TV these days… George Gobel, I remember him from Hollywood Squares.






And last, the TV Teletype for Hollywood. Lucy and Desi sign a multimillion dollar deal with CBS to continue their show thru 1957. Check out the deal James Mason made with Disney to star in 20,000 Leagues.





Come back on Bonus Sunday for the complete issue.

$99 Annual Passport - 1989

Here’s a neat little flyer from 1989. It’s not dated, but looking at the block-out dates on the back, it matches up to the summer holidays of 1989. It’s interesting how you can still get a (Socal Select) annual passport for near this price.  When did the annual passport start? I've heard it was 1987?






The Premium Passport has nearly doubled in cost, still worth it, especially if you use it 17 times, 18 counting today – yes I’m at the park again today!






And for some color, here’s the cover to version 1 of the “Your 1989 Souvenir Guide”. Those of you (Progressland) who watch the blog closely will recall I posted version 2 of this guide back in September (link).





Check back on Bonus Sunday for the entire 1989 version 1 guide.

National Association of Realtors Night at Disneyland

Since Monday was November 10th, technically this post should have been on Monday, but the Magi-Pak tickets seemed more fun for an anniversary post so this post is a couple days late.

From November 10, 1980 it’s the National Association of Realtors Night at Disneyland! 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., odd start and end times? “Our Private Night”, this must be one of those parties where the park was closed to the general public, that sounds like my kind of night at the park!







Free parking and lots of legal mumbo-jumbo… PLEASE LOCK YOUR VEHICLE, this is 1980 ya know!







I don’t have a Winter 1980 Vacationland (there’s a few I don’t have – yet) but here’s a classic cover of a super Vacationland from the Summer of 1980.





Come back on Bonus Sunday for the entire issue, its got some great articles; Pyrotechnics with a Personal Touch; Summer Music in the Park; Welcome to the Tahitian Terrace from Kikkoman; Columbia, Gem of the Ocean and more.

Disneyland Magi-Pak Tickets - Part 2

Let’s take another look at some Magi-Pak tickets. The tickets in today’s post are all lettered tickets; yesterday’s post had tickets that were good for any attraction. Just as with the Magic Kingdom Club (that series post is coming soon) Disneyland generally issued the “good on any attraction” tickets in the winter months and the lettered tickets in the summer months.

Up first is a partial Magi-Pak lettered ticket book, oh boy do I wish I had a complete one of these!






Here’s the “B” & “D” tickets from the above book. It’s difficult to date based on the attractions, but I would place them around 1964.








Slightly newer “A” & “B” tickets, 1968???








This “Star & Castle Paper” “A” Ticket is from late 1966 or early 1967. I sure do dig that paper!






These last two scans are from my copy of the grand Disneyland Ticket Binder. There is no other information than what you see here. Looks like the back to a mid 1960’s Magi-Pak book with an “Early Bird Special” coupon!






Lastly a nice mix of Magi-Pak tickets and back of the book.





Thanks for all the nice comments on my “one year” post yesterday, I really do enjoy the blog and the comments!

Disneyland Magi-Pak Tickets - Part 1

Well folks it been one year since I started this blog! It seems like just yesterday that I did my first post (link), OK, maybe it does seem like a long time ago. However, it’s been a blast the entire time. 330+ posts in one year, not quite daily, but close. I’ve learned a lot; learned to scan and crop better (yikes, some of my early scans & cropping were pretty bad), I’ve met tons of great people and have truly enjoyed every minute. I've even meet a couple of great people at the park! Which by the way, I've been to 17 times this year, I worked that Annual Pass to death!

Now for today’s post. There’s not a lot of information on this subject, so I’ll share what we know. These “Magi-Pak” tickets were sold in the 1960’s. Probably 1963 to 1969, but that’s just a guess. The promotion appears to include; a “Magi-Badge” which I have never seen, DOES ANYONE HAVE ONE? Also included was a “prize coupon” and of course a deal on attraction tickets.

This loose Main Gate Admission ticket is undated, but certainly from the mid 1960’s.






Here’s the front of a Magi-Pak ticket book with the Magi-badge & Admission ticket missing. Not dated, but includes Walt’s signature and other clues that place it around 1964/65.






Fourteen of these Magi-Pak tickets are included in the ticket book, all “E” tickets if you use them wisely.






A fifteenth ticket was included that is very special and does date this book to 1964-65. It’s a special ticket that can be used for the Enchanted Tiki Room. In the Tiki rooms early days, it was owned by Walt personally so the normal Disneyland tickets were not accepted. See prior Tiki Room ticket post here (link).






Moving on to October 1966, this is the first instance of Walt’s signature being replaced with the “Walt Disney Productions” Stamp. I suspect this ticket book is actually from 1967, and the back (where you’ll see the date) was left over from October 1966. I have other non Magi-Pak ticket books from October 1966 that still have Walt’s signature.






The ticket is very similar to the older one shown early in this post, just a slight price increase to 75¢.






Here is the back of the ticket book. Notice the “6610” date code for October 1966. Looks like you did not get your prize at the park; I guess they mailed it to you. What was the prize????? This deal also included a "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln ticket", what a deal!





Come back tomorrow for Magi-Pak part 2 – the Lettered Tickets.

Bonus Sunday

Welcome to Bonus Sunday. It’s a 1950’s day!

First up from Tuesday’s post (link) here is a super Vacationland from Winter 1958-59.

Vacationland Winter 1958-59 – 51mb






Here’s an interesting picture from the above issue of Vacationland. I don’t recall ever seeing that  “TomorrowLand” sign on the Circarama/Circle Vision Theater, has anyone else seen it before?






Here the Disneyland Photo Quiz page, you’ll have to download the entire issue for the answers.






And from Friday’s post (link) here the complete issue of TV Guide from January 1 thru 7, 1955. This was the Golden Age of television, 53 years ago and worlds away….

TV Guide January 1-7, 1955 – 54mb

Trip Report

I was lucky to get to the park on Thursday for a couple of hours. Boy was it a beautiful day! It was overcast in Newport Beach (where I was working) and hot and windy at home, but Disneyland was picture perfect, I swear they order that way! City Hall had the longest line of the morning.








Low crowds in the early part of the day; this is the best way to see the park.






Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the only “attraction” I rode that day, it’s truly becoming one of my favorites.






The Rivers of America sure is peaceful in the early morning hours, hard to believe you’re in Anaheim.






Time to visit my bridge and fence obsessions. Lets's look at the Plaza Gardens Bridge, there have been previous repairs done this year (previous post link) and honestly the repairs make no sense to me.






As you can see, they only replaced some of the floor boards, yet they were all in the same (old & worn) condition. Why just replace some? They did do a nice job “weathering” the boards so they look old.





While maintenance did repair the rotting fence posts they must have missed this! About a two foot section of the lower support beam is completely rotted out! I do hope they will be returning to this soon to fix it. It does appear there is a steel support under the bridge, but come on, this is the kind of thing I expect at Magic Mountain, not Disneyland!







This is the second bridge just north of the Plaza Gardens Bridge. Its looks just as worn as the Plaza Gardens Bridge and I suspect it will get some maintenance soon.






This stuff must require constant maintenance due to the weather.






The third bridge (located just north of the other two) looks fine. It must be fairly new and I gotta say, it’s not nearly as charming as the other two.






Lots of banging and sawing to be heard upstairs in the castle! I also saw a couple of guys come out of the door with blue prints in their hands.






Three fences is doing just fine, although it could use a little assistance from the landscaping department.






What used to be Titan’s Gardens, its now part of Pixie Hollow. I actually like this fountain and gardens much better. I completely avoided the actual “Hollow” area, it was packed!






Boy do they keep that little horseless carriage spotless!






Look what I found backstage, a HUGE Christmas tree!






Now a couple of short videos. First, new Purple/Blue Monorail, dare I say “It glides as softly as a cloud”

Look who I ran into sneaking out of the Pixie Hollow area, aren't they cute!