The American Magazine - August 1955

Welcome to Magazine Monday. For today’s Disneyland related magazine we are going way back to August 1955 and The American Magazine. The American Magazine was in its final year, it was published from 1906 and its last issue was displayed on newsstands in August 1956.





The Amazing Secret of Walt Disney is a very detailed look at man behind the new Disneyland. Have I seen that map somewhere before?





You won’t find a bunch of details about the new park or any photos of it other than the big map. What you will find is an extraordinarily detailed looked at the life of Walt Disney circa August 1955. Of all the magazine articles I’ve posted, this one and the Saturday Evening Post series (link) are the most revealing, lots of reading here, but its good stuff.






This printed text was extra light on this page, I tried to get as much detail as possible.













The art work on the fiction stories is absolutely stunning.












A thirteen year old builds his own Color TV – impressive. To bad there are only a handful of Color shows broadcast in 1955.





Nice choice of colors for this comic.




How about a few vintage advertisements? It’s Making ’55 Famous – For Fun! Indeed!






The Squirt Company, Sherman Oaks, California – wow, they weren't owned by some huge soda conglomerate?





Scotch tape, home repair and decoration! Hey, buy Scotch Tape and when a trip to Disneyland (link)!

New York World's Fair 1964-65 Discount Ticket Book

Is everyone ready to visit the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair? Let’s save some money and get one of these “discount books” sort of like an “Entertainment Book” for the World’s Fair.





Several of these tickets are “Mail Order Only” and require some work on your park, no emails accepted. You can save an entire 15¢ on Walt Disney’s “It’s a Small World”. I wonder if there was a song that goes with this attraction - Maybe Daveland knows? Here's one of the actual tickets from the attraction (link).





Mail your check or money order to Time Square New York and hope for the best. By the way, that little logo at the lower right is for Local One of the Amalgamated Lithographers Union, still in existence (link).




The A.M.F. Monorail looked scary and fun at the same time, 50¢ off, lets all go!




The Log Flume sounds neato, is 10 feet per second fast?





Your guess is a good as mine for the rest of these, I’m more impressed by the variety of “safety” papers that were used, but alas, no “Globe” paper.

All the backs of the non-mail in tickets look like this. I'm wondering how many places had signs up saying "We no longer accept Sav-Pak Book coupons"!

1962 Disneyland Gold Pass - 1000th Post!

Can you believe this is my 1,000th post here on Vintage Disneyland Tickets? I sure can’t, but that's what the little counter thing says. Seems like it was just yesterday that I did my first post (link - my cropping was really bad) OK it feels like three years ago!

How will we Celebrate the 1,000th post? How about a GOLD PASS to Disneyland? How did you get one of these in 1962? Did you have to know Walt? Up to six people thru the main gate any day the park is open - wow!





The Gold Pass even gets better. Once inside the park head over to City Hall and get complimentary attraction tickets for everyone, every day the park is open! This is 1962's version of a premium annual pass for up to 6 people.





Here’s a Courtesy Guest book from June 1963, I’m guessing these are the type they gave out for Gold Pass holders, but I’m not certain.





This Magic Key ticket is from back in the days when the “E” attractions were still ¢50. The three stars on the right side as well as the “X” in the serial number indicate this is a courtesy or complimentary ticket.




Amazing castle and Disneyland font, I never get tired of looking at these.





Sharp eyes will notice the rare (one summer only) appearance of Papotin’s Revue at the Fantasyland Theater. Google “Papotin’s Revue” - I made the top of the list! More than once I’ve googled a vintage Disneyland ticket item or subject and found my blog at or near the top of the list, I’m generally modest, but I gotta admit I’m proud of that.







Thank you everyone for visiting and commenting on my blog – it really is a pleasure to do these posts. I’ve met some great people thru this blog, and of course, my utmost respect goes out to the “Big Three” (click to see their 1000th posts) – Daveland, Gorilla’s Don’t Blog and Stuff from the Park!

Knott's Berry Farm Steak House Luncheon Menu

Who else is hungry? I got a $20 bill in my pocket - I should be able to feed about 8 people with that!!! This undated Knott's Steak House Menu must be from the 1950's based on the prices - Boysenberry Tart with Ice cream - 25 cents!!!

Sorry, Walt Disney Word is filled to capacity - March 1976

Its March 1976 and you just traveled thousands of miles to get the Magic Kingdom and then you are handed this.




Go shopping instead of going to the theme park, sure.

Here's a nice postcard of America on Parade from March 1976.




The weather was in the high 80's and rainy, how odd - that's the same weather as when I went to WDW in 2008!

Newsweek - July 12, 1965

Welcome to Magazine Monday. Today's we've got a great edition of Newsweek from July 12, 1965.




The Disneyland article is only 3 pages long but its well written and informative. Also mentions of Freedomland and Colorado's Magic Mountain.




Disney tries to discourage long lines at popular rides by raising the price!




Nice interest rate from El Dorado Savings.





A little bit of Alice history for the Alice fans out there.





Now for some vintage advertisements. Who can forget Quinine Water (Malaria victims most likely) - blue tinted bitter soda water, sign me up!




By 1965 Rambler had some decent looking modern styled cars such as this Classic Station Wagon looking very similar to a 1965 Chevelle!





I had a 1965 Sedan De Ville that I bought from the original owner with 55,000 miles on it - I sold it in 1983 for $250 because it needed brakes and I clearly needed my head examined! It was a big car, but this print ad might be exaggerating the long low profile just a bit.





Stunning artwork - I miss the real space programs, back when America was number one and proud of it!







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