Yesterday & Tomorrow

Today is a "in between" & "catch up" day here at the blog. Two small items for you review, neither is too exciting, but hey, they can't all be Gems.

From March 9, 1990 its U.S.C. Trojan Nite. I wonder how many UCLA fans showed up? If you are a Trojan fan, possibly you can explain this (link).






From March 11, 1999, this was a ticket I purchased and used myself. I think this was the first trip where the parking lot was gone and the confusion began. Notice how badly this "thermal" paper has faded and its been locked up for 10 years!




Come back tomorrow for a fun look at a trip to Disneyland and the Disneyland Hotel, March 11, 1962.

Westways Magazine - July 1955

Welcome to Magazine Monday! Keeping with last weeks Summer 1955 theme, today’s feature magazine is Westways from July 1955. Westways Magazine is the official magazine of the Automobile Club of Southern California. Westways comes in my mailbox every month and it’s actually pretty good.






Here’s the contents page for this issue, I am so digging that “Westways’ script.






The Disneyland article is only two pages, however it makes up for it with tons of facts (and fiction). They were still talking about “Recreationland” this late in the game? Where is the “Concord coach with Walt” photo taken, the studio?






Maybe this article was written several months before July 1955. “Castle’s torture dungeon" with “Dinning hall of Knights”…? “Alice’s wacky Wonderland may be toured on foot by venturing in a mammoth rabbit hole”? “Lilliputian Land with Monstro the whale water slide”! Was there ever a Wells Fargo Station in Frontierland?

The original concept of the Rivers of America is intriguing; “The gaily decorated boat will churn past replicas of colorful and historic waterfront cities, homes and forts such as New Orleans, Mobile, St. Louis, Mount Vernon and West Point”.

I’ve pretty much heard or read of the “never built” attractions listed above, but this is the first mention I’ve seen of “Delmonico’s, a reproduction of the famed New York eatery”? The “Cantonese House” in Adventureland?  For those of you that care, notice the first line of the last paragraph, “July 18” is referenced as the first or “initial” day of Disneyland, not July 17th. I’m just saying…






A neat two page article on California’s Lakes. I recently discovered some of the lake mentioned (in the Sierra’s) what a treasure. The bottom photo is Hume Lake, check out this time lapse webcam of the lake (link) there's more water in the summer.








Now for a few words for our sponsor. Telephone’s in everyone room? You must be kidding. Its like Marty in Back to the Future when he tell the 1955 family he has "two TV’s", they of course think he must be kidding, “no one has two TV’s”!






Lead a “charmed life” go all-electric!






KNX will be carrying the Yacht races via shortwave radio from Diamond Head Hawaii! Hey, I listen to KNX 1070 news radio, traffic on the “5’s”.






These last two advertisements are a great idea. If you're buying a new car (and wasn't in 1955) why pay for freight and factory delivery, go pick it up yourself and fly back.  Do you really think you saved enough to fly and pay for fuel and food on the way back? Sounds fun anyway, I’ll pick up my 1955 Eldorado factory direct, thank you very much.

Bonus Sunday

Welcome to a  foot-stompin’ knee-slappin’ rip-snortin’ Bonus Sunday! Up first is the complete issue of the Summer 1972 Vacationland Magazine.


Vacationland Summer 1972 – 44mb






There’s a nice two page article about “A World of Laughter”.






The “centerfold”: fun times in the early 70’s at Disneyland.






From page 18, Busch Gardens is getting a new five acre addition. I loved the “barrel-flume” thrill ride. Be sure and download the entire issue, there’s some other fun stuff in there too!






Now as an extra Bonus, here are some pages from the Spring 1972 Disney News magazine. These images were donated by Tokyo Magic over at Meet the World blog (link). What a great cover!






The Country Bear article is similar to the one in the Vacationland above. The text is almost verbatim. The photos are also almost exact. There’s just enough difference in layout and graphics to make sure they are not identical. The Disney News was for “Magic Kingdom Club” members.











Thanks Tokyo Magic!

News from Disneyland - Spring 1972

With all those high unemployment numbers lately don’t you wish it was 1972? Let’s pretend it’s the Spring of 1972 and you could be one of the 1,900 people that Disneyland needs for the summer. With the grand opening of Bear Country just weeks away (its 1972 remember?) the park is adding another 100 jobs to the already needed 1,800 for a total of 6,300 for the summer, WOW, do they even have that many now? I bet not after the last round of layoffs….








The Country Bears made the cover of the SUMMER 1972 Vacationland magazine!







Come back tomorrow on Bonus Sunday for the complete issue.

Happy Days at Disneyland - March 6-7-8, 1974

It’s Happy Days at Disneyland - March 6-7-8, 1974. Happy Days for the Pacific Egg and Poultry Association. A three day convention at Disneyland, nice!

“There are more then half a hundred fabulous adventures and attractions”, or maybe just over fifty…





FYI: “Happy Days” began its long run on ABC starting January 15, 1974, The "Happy Days at Disneyland" flyer was printed in January 1974, coincidence?

From the Spring of 1974 here’s a fun little “Disneyland Guide”. Those with a sharp eye (Progressland) will notice this is from last years post (link), I’ve got plenty of un-posted guides still, but I like to keep the time periods matched up in the posts.


Complete Disneyland Guide Spring 1974 (12mb)

Disneyland Hospitality Ticket Books Display Card

Here’s a fun little display card for local hotel/motel rooms dated August 1976. The “Exclusive Ticket Value” was for Disneyland’s Hospitality Ticket Books. These ticket books were only available at your hotel/motel registration desk and not available at the Disneyland Main Gate.






Here’s an unused Hospitality book from June 1978. As you can seem, the Hospitality book included two days admission to Disneyland. You better not lose the “2nd Day” ticket with the booklet in your pocket all day on the first day!  Nice LOWEST serial number too!  You could still use this “intact” ticket book for admission to the park today (maybe even for two days) but that would be crazy, of course some day I may try it!






Fresh Globe tickets - smells better than money.






The back of the Hospitality book from June 1978 shows a ¢75 price increase from the August 1976 display card.






Lastly, here’s an attraction list from the back of a different June 1978 ticket book. I couldn’t get myself to bend back those fresh tickets so I used an empty book instead.

Magic Mountain - A New World of Family Entertainment

It’s been a while since we’ve shown some love for Magic Mountain so let’s go ahead and set the way back machine to 1971 or “year one” for Magic Mountain. If you missed the Magic Mountain Guest preview day post be sure and check it out, there’s some amazing concept art in that post (link).

This brochure is not dated but must be from 1971 or possibly early 1972. Only the original attractions are listed and the ticket price of $5 for adults is the lowest price I’ve seen in print.






Too groovy baby. I like the purple tank top with the white pants, seriously I do...






“A True Natural Wonderland”. Wonderland sure, but Natural? Valencia is a nice place, but it doesn’t naturally have waterfalls and fountains that shoot 30 feet in the air. "One price buys the Whole Mountain", no pesky ticket books to bother with!






A Total Entertainment Experience. It really was…






I think I’ll use my Master Charge thank you very much.





If you’re really into Vintage Magic Mountain and you haven’t seen all my previous posts, check them out here (link). This makes the 15th post for Magic Mountain!

Bank of America Brochure - June 1992

Since yesterday’s post was full of black & white photos, how about some more? If I wasn’t so lazy I’d look up the last day the Bank of America was on Main Street, but this must be one of the last brochures from the bank. It's dated June 1992 and tells the history of Bank of America.











The only mentions of Disneyland are on the back page and a brief note in the middle section talking about “the exhibit at the Disneyland office”.

Ecran Magazine - August 1955

Welcome to Magazine Monday! Digging a little deeper into the stack of “odd” magazines, this week’s feature is “Ecran” Magazine from August 1955.  I think it’s called “Ecran”, which translates to “Screen” in French. The magazine itself does not appear to be in French. From what I can tell it was printed in Argentina or Mexico or maybe Chile.

A wonderful photo of Judy Garland graces the cover of this faded and fading fast magazine. The paper is similar to the lined paper we used in 1st grade. Oddly, Judy’s photo does not appear anywhere else in the magazine.






“Disneylandia” I bet that translates to “Disneyland” You’re on your own with the rest of this four page article. I must confess to only speaking English. If anyone wants to translate some of this please do.










“Klenzo” detergent with a catchy name! Nice prizes.






A couple of the “Hollywood” sections.








Here’s three ½ page advertisements that I pasted together, I guess it was 1955 everywhere huh?






What is this lady using to make her face look like wax and why?






Mari Blanchard is looking mighty fine on the back cover, a “B” movie actress according to Wikipedia (link). Who is this Eduardo guy that signed both the front and the back?





Neat way to do the date whoever you are!






Since this magazine had Judy Garland on the cover but nothing about her inside, I thought I throw in this little video. From 1943 Live “Command Performance” radio show done for the WWII troops. Judy sings “Over the Rainbow” and nails it with such precision and emotion it’s spooky.