Disneyland Snapshot - August 1955

Here's a neat look at a corner of Town Square when its was just a baby in August 1955.






Zooming in you can't see much of that sign, but I can see the Mark Twain and a dancing lady!

Magic Kingdom Club Ticket Book - October 1961

Taking yet another look into the Magic Kingdom Club collection, today we've got a complete and unused ticket book from October 1961. This ticket book is 49 years old yet looks as new as the day it was printed, someone must have kept this one locked up in a safe (oh wait, that's me!)

The Monorail still circles Tomorrowland and Flying Saucers have landed!

Family Fun Party - October 19, 1980

Its October 19, 1980 and Mickey is ready to celebrate "Our special party", in fact its a Family Fun Party! The lucky holder of this ticket gets unlimited use of all attractions (except shooting galleries).





Free Parking! Do you think Mickey really towed your car away (in violation of AMC 14.32.220) if you left it in the lot one hour after closing?





Since we're in 1980, lets take a look at a super Disney News from the Fall of 1980. The cover alone is all I need for this issue to be a keeper, what a great shot of one of my favorite attractions.






An amazing four page article on America Sings, boy do I miss this show, the music, the theater...












"Walt Disney's Greatest Dream" and you're not looking at it....






Nice three page article on the "Two Castles". Hey, some of these old Disney News issues were pretty good!







Yet another nice Disneyland article.





Planning a trip? This page is sure clean and tight, I wonder if computers were used for the layout by 1980?






Now there's two movies I see almost every day on cable.

Dynamite goes to Disney World - August 1975

Welcome to Magazine Monday – Walt Disney World Edition. Who else vividly recall’s Scholastic’s Dynamite Magazine? To me this was the only decent publication from Scholastic’s wide range of snooze-control choices. Dynamite was published from 1974 thru 1992, this early issue from August 1975 is #14.





Let me know if you seeing anything interesting that I didn’t include in this post.





Considering that Dynamite Magazine generally had a artsy-funky-crunchy-granola mood mixed with innocent (not so funny) humor, this four page Disney World article is pretty good.











This style of “art” for kids always struck me as odd, even as a kid. It’s as if the adults assumed the kids were on acid. Where’s the Green Meanie?





The only thing that seems accurate about this survey is that Skippy is on the bottom of the list, JIF of course should be #1






Whoa more Licorice Pizza artwork, I’m getting a weird mid-70’s groove on.






What in the world is going on here? Count Chocula meets Wolf Man Jack! This explains all those weird dreams I had in the 5th grade.

Bonus Sunday

From Friday's "1960" post, here is the entire issue of Vacationland for Spring 1960.






Download here: Vacationland Spring 1960 - 70mb

Disneyland partially used ticket book - June 1960

Naturally not every vintage Disneyland ticket book is going to be complete. This “just in” book from June 1960 is missing all of its “E” and “A” tickets, but since I’ve got plenty of spare “E’s” and “A’s” its fine with me. In fact, in a way these partially used ticket books are more fun – its neat knowing this book was in the park in the summer of 1960 and some lucky vintage guest tore out some of the tickets and used them.





50 years later I tore out the remaining three tickets and let me tell you it felt great! Too bad you can’t hear that distinct “Snap” sound, it’s intoxicating.










Awesome attraction list. The Monorail still just circles Tomorrowland, Main Street still has a Shooting Gallery (has anyone ever seen interior photos of the MS Shooting Gallery?) and Fantasyland has an Omnibus!

An unbelievable value.






Here’s the cover to the spring 1960 issue of Vacationland.





Swift’s tender-grown premium chicken dinners for $1.75!!!!!






Before C & H had a sack of sugar on the Main Street drinking fountain, Spreckles was the sugar king of Disneyland. Come back on Bonus Sunday for the entire issue.

AAA Minnie Vacation Two-Day Passport - October 14 & 16, 1989

This AAA Minnie Vacation Two-day Passport to Disneyland sure has some interesting artwork? Is it just me or is it kind of creepy?

Splash for Cash at Disneyland - 1989

This special passport was part of the "Splash for Cash" promotion for the grand opening of Splash Mountain at Disneyland. Somewhere on this blog I posted the second version of this ticket that included an additional day due to the delay of the grand opening. I'd link that old post, but I can't find it, I need to do some better indexing of these posts!





This offer open only to McDonald's employees. "would you like fries with that?"

Planting the Seed for Anaheim’s Future

Here’s an interesting item. Undated but most like from the mid 1990’s this packet of California poppy seeds is “Planting the Seed for Anaheim’s Future”. This packet looks as if it was actually used, it’s weathered and all the seeds are gone! I’m not familiar with that castle & globe logo, was that supposed to be for Wescot?







This is probably before the Disney's California Adventure idea was born, yet the instructions appear to describe DCA perfectly; thinly cover with dirt, sunny location preferred and little care or water needed.





This badge definitely demonstrates what went wrong wit the second park concept, its all about MONEY!!!!!