Kal Kan Kennel Club at Disneyland - 1972/74

Today’s post is in honor of Disneyland’s Kennel Club which is currently getting remodeled along with an addition of a stroller/wheel chair rental center and a new Annual Passport center (link). I recently saw the progress in person; the front looks nice, just like the Main Gate roofs, the back of the Kennel however looks to be the same old building.

From 1972, you are welcomed to the club, the Kal Kan Kennel Club. The certificate and the membership card are shown in this post, but the coupon for the free Kal Kan pet dinner is missing and was probably used.






“Michelle” was one lucky dog, here’s her certificate from November 15, 1972.






Not only did Michelle got to visit to Disneyland’s Kal Kan Kennel Club again on May 7, 1974, it appears she changes owners and even the new owner knows how to pamper their pup.






Michelle was accepted as a lifelong member of the Kennel Club!






Only Kal Kan has earned this really cool gold seal!






Here’s Michelle’s lifelong membership card.

Disneyland - Winter Program 1987

Its winter time at Disneyland! This Winter Program was effective January 14 thru March 6, 1987. Published exclusively for Anaheim Area Lodging Guests. It’s similar to the Summer 1987 Program I posted last July (link). It’s also similar to the Holiday 1988 Program from last months post (link) although that one was from American Express.






Here’s the park operating hours for the first three months of 1987. Do you think someone would ever try and record Disneyland’s operating hours for EVERY SINGLE DAY the part has been open since July 17, 1955? Nah, that’s too mind boggling.






Hey, the Disneyland art department can just copy my scan and print it in the new Guide Maps for February 2010!






Some neat stuff I have vaguely heard of; The “Totally Minnie” parade sounds totally rad. The Great Gold Mystery of Bear County show must have been fun. “A Polynesian Show” was playing at the Tahitian Terrace – bring back the Tahitian Terrace, its long over due.






Star Tours was “All New” when they printed this program; it opened just five days before the “effective” dates began.

Exclusive Passport to Disneyland - 1977

Available January 5 thru May 31, 1977 it’s the Magic Kingdom Club Exclusive Passport to Disneyland. This little flyer is the exact same size as the actual passport itself.






Admission and UNLIMITED use of all 54 Disneyland attractions (no Shooting Gallery exemption?). Is Space Mountain in that count of 54? It opened May 27, 1977 so you could still use these passports for its first few days.






There’s that pesky “except shooting galleries” notice, darn them!






This used April 8, 1977 ticket is proof that the “sting thru a paper hole” thing wasn’t such a good idea.






Here are a couple of unused (most likely samples) passports with low-low serials numbers, shamelessly re-broadcast from a previous post (link).








The size of these early passports still amazes me, they’re huge! By 1982 they had shrunk down to a more reasonable size.





If you haven’t heard the news yet, Disneyland might just be getting some much needed new and exciting things, like a new E-Ticket attraction, or two! And maybe, just maybe, something new on the PeopleMover track! Check out the article at Miceage (link).

From the article: “And yes, that was E Ticket attractions, plural. Just before the holiday season, John Lasseter took a walking tour of some of the top sites under consideration for these new expansions. John is now famous for being like a kid in a candy store on his regular Disneyland visits, and he was interested in all of the backstage areas to be seen on his recent Expansion Plan tour. The tour prominently included the current Festival Arena area, the northern edges of the Rivers of America, and the adjacent Circle D ranch that is backstage just beyond the berm, as well as the Tomorrowland areas in and around Innoventions.” WOW!

Saturday Evening Post - November 17, 1956

Welcome to Magazine Monday on Tuesday. I hope you’re ready for a Mega-Magazine post, Major, I hope you got all liquored up for this one! From November 17, 1956 it’s The Saturday Evening Post. This issue features the first of an eight part series, “My Dad, Walt Disney” by Diane Disney Miller. You probably won’t be seeing all eight parts here; I think I’ve only got five issues.






This photo of Walt and his family looks like a painting. I’ve noticed Mrs. Disney liked her sun glassed. I really like the Post’s logo box and “Founded in 1728 by Ben Franklin” tag line, classy publication.






Great 1950’s animation! Walt with a full load of guests, do you think they each paid 10¢ (or an “A” ticket)?






This photo has been shown elsewhere, but it sure is great shot.






Four more pages of text follow. Diane gets very detailed in this series, plenty of her words have be “recycled” in later years as truths about Walt. I think somewhere on the internet you can find the text from all eight parts.












“The Too-Proper Young Man”. I haven’t had time to read this yet, but wow, the illustrations are amazing. If anyone is interested in the rest of this article, let me know and all post it on Bonus Sunday.








Another wonderful article, beautifully illustrated and American to the core. “Yet if America is to remain free, U.S. military Air Power must continue to be superior to that of any potential aggressor”.






Are you ready for some vintage advertisements? How about fifteen of them? Yes I went nuts on the ads from this magazine, to be honest, I left some gems out, I had to because my scanner was smoking!

General Motors had three double-page ads that are my personal favorites in this issue. These are some incredible machines; IMHO these are the pinnacle of “50’s” styling for GM. 1958 would see a dreadful complete makeover for GM's Five (link) that would take a few years to recover from.





Love those colors!






Long, low and wide. "When better cars are built, Buick will build them"






Ford, “at the low Ford prices” had a whole different approach than GM. It has that “Touch of Tomorrow too”.






Dodge was in full “Swept-Wing” mode by 1957. Great design, but I think I see it rusting already in this photo.






The little guys took out double-page ads too! Studebaker has some sweet looking cars in 1957, Supercharged too! I always thought the “President” sedan looked a lot like a Cadillac.






The rambler was just ugly, sorry. In reality they were very good quality cars, probably a notch above the lower priced GM cars, but did I mention it was ugly?






Our last look at cars in 1957 is from AC, GM’s parts division. How cool is that dog driving the green Oldsmobile?






Look how happy the wife is that her husband bought her a cooking appliance so she can make him breakfast!






Seven-up I so pure go ahead and give it to babies instead of milk.






Look at the size of that cash register. This advertisement if dedicated to my fellow blogger Dave over at Pleasant Family Shopping, be sure to check out his super blog (link).






That is one of the coolest clock-radio’s I’ve ever seen.






OK, we all know smoking is deadly, gross and stupid, just don’t do it. That said, would you buy cigarettes named “SPUD”?






“Station to Station” and “Call by Number, it’s Twice as Fast”, does anyone under 40 even know what these terms mean?






“Enjay Butyl” never heard of it but I guess it’s in our daily lives and we need it, just like Zinc Oxide.

Magazine Monday - Delayed

Please accept Judy's apology for a slight delay in presenting "Magazine Monday" on time. Judy is from a 1956 "large format" magazine that is so full of amazing pages that it turned out taking much longer than expected to scan all these large beautiful pages. See you Tomorrow.

Bonus Sunday

Welcome to the first Bonus Sunday of 2010! Here's the complete issue of "The Disney World" December 1965 - January 1966, there sure was a lot going with the Disney Company heading into 1966.


The Disney World - Dec. 65 / Jan. 66 (75mb)








The Sherman Brothers sign on for three more years, nice! “Benny Benefit” is a great article about a hilarious appearance Walt makes on Jack Benny’s TV Special.






It just so happens you can download the entire November 13, 1965 Jack Benny show (including awesome Eastern Airlines commercials) at archive.org (link). I clipped out the scene that featured Walt and posted it below (hope it worked..). I love that the whole setup is about free DISNEYLAND TICKETS and we get to see one hundred and eleven ticket books. Walt definitely plays into Benny’s style of humor, it’s great to see film of Walt that I’ve never seen before.

More photo’s of Walt, he sure was a busy man.






Here’s Walt with the Florida Mafia. Neato painting on the wall of the back side of a beach lady!






It never occurred to me that someone replaced Julie Reihm as Disneyland's Ambassador during Walt’s life time. Here’s Connie Jean Swanson meeting Walt and the “great big wide world of Disney”. Fascinating talk about “Paid Fares” for attractions (in 1965, 6.3 million guests paid 58 Million attraction "fares"). I wonder if it would have made better financial cents to keep the "A thru E" ticket system in place after all? Nah…






Walt was more popular than ever leading into 1966 and the company knew it. It really is difficult to image where the company would have gone had Walt been around for a few more years.






That is one BIG drum! I'd love to hear it Where is it now???





See you tomorrow as we continue “Magazine Monday” into 2010.