Jack and Jill Magazine - December 1961

Welcome to this special Christmas edition of Magazine Monday. From December 1961 its Jack and Jill Magazine. Be sure to check out my previous “Jack and Jill” triple bonus magazine post here (link). Yes this cover is trashed, but the rest of the magazine is in great shape.






This is on the inside over – was this a religious magazine or was it simply OK to have something like this in a child’s magazine in 1961? Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great, I’m just not sure you could do this today – invoking “Christ” and the “Lord” in a child’s publication. Maybe I’m way off base here, let me know?






The Disneyland article is six pages long and mostly covers the “Parade of Toys”.






I’m not a big parade fan, but the “French Balloonists March” looks pretty neat. And that giant mouse trap is fun too, HEY - they better keep Mickey away from that trap!






There’s those prancing reindeer with that silly expression on their faces; I used to work with someone who always had that same expression on his face! Nice castle shot, I like the toy soldiers up on the castle balcony – I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone up there on the front side? Notice the little ½ domed light on the lawn, my local miniature golf place used to have those exact same lights!






There are no advertisements in Jack and Jill, so how about a few holiday related articles? Here are a few fun recipes – Is it just me or do the characters on these pages remind you of Kevin Kidney's work?






A “Christmas Picture to Color” the child did a pretty good job with the crayons, I never stayed in the lines like that!






Diz and Liz look like they came right from the late 1950’s News Paper Comics section.






Time to test your wits.





The answers can be found here (link).

Bonus Sunday

Welcome to Bonus Sunday. From Tuesday’s 1968 “Kaiser Family Fun Night” post, here is the Fall 1968 issue of Vacationland.

This issue is short at just 20 pages, but its full of great articles about; The PeopleMover, The Disneyland Roundhouse, Tours Guides, The Mark Twain, Adventure Thru Inner Space, Knott’s Berry Farm (An actual article, plus the usual Knott’s Ad on the back cover), The Kids of the Kingdom, “Matterhorn, Landmark of Disneyland”, Disneyland Dining! That’s a lot for 20 pages!


Vacationland Fall 1968 – 100mb






The Centerfold.






Dolly Madison had this great advertisement. They are still around, but are now part of the Interstate Bakeries Corporation, which also owns Hostess and everything else that's baked.

The Newest Year-Round Vacation Center of America

Did you know that Anaheim, California is “The Newest Year-Round Vacation Center of America"? Of course it’s also “The Home of Disneyland”. This travel brochure is brought to you by the Orange County Chamber of Commerce.





This brochure is (say it with me) undated, however, the Dodger’s are shown at the Coliseum, which would place this between 1958 and 1961. The art work is great on this vintage map and looks very familiar – compare it to the back cover to the Fall 1957 issue of the Disneyland Holiday Magazine (link).






“Its summer year-round in Southern California”, well, that might be a bit of a stretch but it is looking to be another sunny beautiful December day here in the Southland. And don’t forget that “Hollywood Magic”.






Ah good time’s night and day…








The back cover has a nice section for Knott’s Berry Farm and Ghost Town. And there’s your “Fun Emblem” pledging “high standards of hospitality, services and fair practice".

The Survey Says.....

No vintage post today, I ran out of time and I’m at the park today!!!!

Have you seen the "survey" cast members at Disneyland, the ones with the electronic clipboards that hang around the Main Gate? I usually try and avoid these survey folks as if they had the swing flu. I’ve done the surveys in the past and they can be time consuming and kind of boring. We’ll, they moved the survey folks down into Main Street too (they were working both sides of the street!) and they nabbed me!

Fortunately, they just take your email address and zip code. I gave them my work email thinking it would never make it thru the spam filter, but sure enough, it blazed right thru the spam filter and I got the email you see below.

If you have absolutely nothing to do today, follow this link to my Trip Report blog and see the entire (65 screen) survey!

Disneyland Report Survey - Link

If you followed the link and actually read the entire survey, we both need to get a life!!!

Old-Time Christmas Shopping at Knott's

Are you ready to Enjoy Old-Time Christmas Shopping at Knott’s? This great little flyer is undated, possibly from the late ‘60’s? This is the only piece of ephemera for Knott’s at Christmas that I have in my collection. Vintage Knott’s Christmas stuff is almost as rare as Vintage Disneyland Hanukkah stuff!





I hope you’re ready for the Holidays at Disneyland here on the blog; Starting next week We’ve got about 15 vintage “Christmas at Disneyland” posts lined up for December, and that’s not counting the multiple vintage “New Years Party at Disneyland” posts – Tis the Season to be Jolly…

Kaiser Family Fun Night at Disneyland - December 1, 1968

It’s Family Fun Night at Disneyland December 1, 1968. This was the first annual Kaiser Steel and Kaiser Permanente Medical Entities Family Fun Night. I’ve always wondered if the “Steel” Kaiser was the same as the “Medical” Kaiser, looks like they are.

This event appears not to be private party so hang on to this ticket, you're going to need it for admission to the attractions. For $3.75 you get eight hours of unlimited attractions on a Sunday evening, how many can you do? I’m staying in the “New” Tomorrowland all night thank you very much…






How about a stunning Vacationland cover to go with our 1968 ticket? Up until recently my only copy of this Fall 1968 edition of Vacationland was a badly water damaged version. Compliments of the Jack ‘N Jill Motel, we’ve got a much nicer copy to look at.






This is where I’ll be for half of the family fun night, riding the PeopleMover around and around 1968 Tomorrowland.







Have you heard the Tomorrowland Terrace will close on January 4, 2010 for a four month refurbishment? That’s a long time to close. It is getting pretty worn, most of it’s from 1967, oh I sure hope they do it right. Note: The Rivers of America (and its associated attractions) will also be closed for refurbishment from January 4th thru May 6th, 2010. (link)






This is where I’ll be for the other half of the family fun night – I bet there’s a certain Gorilla that doesn’t blog who will be riding ATIS all night…

Ramparts Magazine - October 1966

Welcome to Magazine Monday. Digging way down in the obscure pile we find Ramparts Magazine from October 1966. “Ramparts was an American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 through 1975” … “Founded by Edward M. Keating as a Catholic literary quarterly, the magazine became closely associated with the New Left”… “Unlike most leftist publications, Ramparts was expensively produced and graphically sophisticated. It reached an audience that may have been put off by the grittier "movement" publications of the time. (Source: Wikipedia)






As you can tell by contents and “Apologia” column this publication probably wasn’t too interested in Disneyland. In Warren Hinckle’s column he explains how Disneyland was used to illustrate “California’s complex garden of politics”. Contact me if you have an interest in the other articles in this magazine, I'd be happy to scan them for you.






Since this article really has nothing to do with our Disneyland and it's very text heavy, I’m just going to post the photos with a little text. If you want to read the entire thing, you can download the 22 page article here:


Ramparts October 1966 Disneyland Article - 74mb






The article is broken up into “Lands”: Pat Brown in Liberal-land, Si Casady in Adentureland, Ronnie (Reagan) in Tomorrowland and lastly, Vultureland!

Is this photo taken in New Orleans Square, if so, where???






Nice depth of field, I don’t suppose my cheap digital camera can do this?






Is Uncle Sam still in the Penny Arcade? Oh man, I should know this!






What on earth is going on here? I know they used to do simulated hangings at Knott’s, but I never knew they did this odd ritual at Disneyland too? Is a hanging really appropriate in a political article?






If this photo was in color maybe we could tell that It's a Small World was brand new.






Mickey in front of the Disney Galley, oh, I mean the Bank of America.






I could only find two full page advertisements in this magazine. This one is for shirts and has some pretty lofty ad text – it’s just a shirt Ok.





Not much to say about this since I know nothing about it. I wonder how that whole “suing the government” thing worked out?

Bonus Sunday

Welcome to Bonus Sunday. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and had plenty of good food, I sure did!

From Friday's post, here is the complete Winter-Spring 1968 edition of Vacationland.


Vacationland Winter-Spring 1968 - 96mb






To be honest, I just noticed this photo was backwards when I scanned it the other night, but I've had this issue for a while and have read it several times!






A nice two page Tiki Room article.






Super color photos in the centerfold.






While not as exciting as a sack of sugar on a drinking fountain, I do like this ad for Dolly Madison Cakes, they're "toothsome". The purple ink they used is so thick it actually coats/laminates the paper!

1967 Disneyland Employee Family Christmas Shopping Pass

In honor of “Black Friday” here’s a vintage Disneyland Employee Family Christmas Shopping Pass from 1967. What a great treat for the family, free parking and a main gate pass good for most of December!






A 15% discount was “possible” on “selected” merchandise; of course the item you want is not “selected” and will be full price. See a 1981 vs. 1982 Employee Holiday Pass post from last year here (link).






The cover to the Winter 1967 - Spring 1968 edition of Vacationland. Notice anything wrong with this picture? Here's a (clue).






Nice article about the benefits of purchasing ticket books. No mention of the fact that you probably won’t used them all and some weird guy on eBay will buy them from you decades later.






This article is entitle “The Everchanging Disneylandscape”, spell check doesn’t like that title and if you want to see the second page, come back on Bonus Sunday for the entire issue.






This scan is dedicated to my friend “Katella Gate”, we both share an odd fondness for vintage Disneyland drinking fountains especially with sacks of sugar on them.





Come back on Bonus Sunday for the entire issue, its got articles about; "Spring has Sprung" with that weird hot air balloon at Disneyland, "Hollywood Tours" opens its doors, "The Enchanted Tiki Room" and "The Happiest Cleaners Work at Disneyland".

Walt Disney's Magazine - August 1957

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. As a special holiday treat, here’s some fun selected articles from the August 1957 edition of Walt Disney’s Magazine (Formerly Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club Magazine)






While not directly related to Thanksgiving, as hero of American Folklore, Johnny Appleseed certainly was a great American in the tradition of Paul Bunyan and Davy Crockett. Al Dempster provides the excellent illustration; see the original art work over at Kevin Kidney’s Flickr site (link).






Where is the Carnation Delivery Truck today? It appears to have been a working vehicle just like the rest of the Gurrmobiles, if they have it, they should run again.






Here’s some wonderful Paul Hartley illustrations and an interesting article on how money began.






You can also see the original of this Paul Hartley beauty over at Kevin Kidney’s Flickr site (link).






Lots of self promotion in this magazine.









Why did they handle the subscriptions though New York?





See my previous Walt Disney Magazine posts here (link).

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!