Disneyland - For your information April 1, 1977

Happy April 1st everyone, keep you wits about you today, don’t’ forget its April Fools Day! I’m not really creative enough to fool anyone on my blog, so we’ll celebrate April 1st with a new flyer for the season.

Setting the way-back machine to exactly 32 year ago, Disneyland has a new “For your information” flier. This 4 by 9 inch heavy card stock flier is effective 4/1/77 thru 9/18/77. These might have been for local hotels or travel agents or ?






Space Mountain’s grand opening weekend May 27, 28 and 29. Senior Days, Date Nites, Main Street Electrical Parade, Fantasy in the Sky Fireworks, ah the gold old days.






Let’s look at a 1977 Ticket book. Mickey is welcoming up with open arms, how cute!






Letters of joy…






Neat 70’s Disneyland logo, it reminds me of that Summer of 77’ when for the first time me and my friend spent the whole day at Disneyland with no adults!!!!






Too many fun things to do in one day, but lets try and do them all anyway.






I’m in a “B” ticket mood today and I’m torn between using this ticket for Casey Jr. or The Swiss Family Tree House… Alice, you’re a close 3rd.






You have got to the love the art work for the original Space Mountain, its so Super Seventies! Check back on Bonus Sunday for this entire issue of the Disneyland Line – Special Magic Mountain Edition, every page is about the new attraction.

Take a Bus to Disneyland - 1955 Photo Find

Today’s post is a follow up too last week’s Magazine Monday post “Take a Bus to Disneyland” (link). My good friend at Disney on Parole found this amazing collection of MTA archival photos on Flickr and shared it with us, thank you! The entire 45 picture MTA/Disneyland collection can be found at Flickr here (link).

Here’s a set of photos from November 19, 1955 that were taken for the article in my post of last week.















This last one from November 19, 1955 claims to be at Disneyland, anyone know where this is/was?






This set is from is from August 12, 1955 and appears to follow around some of the MTA drivers.



























Thanks again to Disney on Parole!

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!

Bonus Sunday - Schwinn takes a trip to Disneyland 1965/66

Welcome to Bonus Sunday. Today we’ve got a neat little catalog. “Schwinn takes a Trip to Disneyland".





Schwinn takes a trip to Disneyland Entire Catalog - 71mb



Here's a few select pages.  On Friday’s post I couldn’t find the date for this catalog, well heck, it’s right on the first inside page! Maybe I need glasses… "Copyright 1966", however, I think these photos were taken in 1965, check out last photo in this post.






“Ask any Mermaid You Happen to See... What's the Best Tuna?” Chicken of the Sea of course! These bikes are great!






This set of photos has pretty ladies, pretty bikes and the “old” Tomorrowland in its golden years, I love it!






From the tandem bikes section on page 15, this Main Street photo reveals it was taken in 1965. I imagine the rest of the photos are from 1965 as well, probably the fall when the park was closed Monday’s and Tuesday’s.





I hope you download and enjoy Schwinn;s trip to Disneyland catalog, there's some great vintage photos and some great vintage bikes. Check back next week for Schwinn's "Diamond Jubilee" Catalog from 1970 photographed at Knott's Berry Farm. It's just as fantastic as the Disneyland catalog, maybe a little better because it has my first bike in it, a Sting-Ray in Campus Green with a "Slik" rear tire!