Magic Kingdom Club Membership Card - 1963

Taking yet another look at Disneyland’s Magic Kingdom Club today we’ve got a membership card from 1963. This club card was issued to Eileen Wakefield (what an awesome signature!) and apparently she worked for Trans-World Airlines. I guess TWA still got Magic Kingdom Club membership status even though they had just recently dropped sponsorship of the Rocket to the Moon Ride.





The usual “let them eat cake” disclaimers on the back. Interestingly, some Club memberships expire at the end of the year and some (like this one) expire right before summer starts.






How about a vintage Vacationland Magazine to go with the 1963 Magic Kingdom Club membership card? This cover photo on the Winter-Spring 1963 Vacationland is so familiar that I could swear I’ve posted this issue before, but I don’t think I have, at least I can’t find it anywhere on this blog.





They thought this show was already an old timer, I think it’s got a few more years to go!





Next year being the 50th anniversary of The Swiss Family Tree House attraction wouldn’t it be amazing if they evicted Tarzan (do kids even know who that guy is?) and moved the Robinsons’ back in??? Let Kevin Kidney coordinate the restoration and it will be perfect! The article mentions a Swiss Flag at the attraction, I know someone who "acquired" one of those flags directly from the tree house, maybe they would donate it back if gets restored.





Great wall map, the cast members are a bit creepy however.





Viewmaster’s and Disneyland were really hitting their stride by 1963. That’s a neat castle drawing, a bit of a Monet influence?

New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Special Events Ticket

The 1964-65 New York World's Fair looks so amazing in all the great vintage slides, I sure wish I could have seen it in person. If someone ever gets that time machine working I've got a few of these Special Events Tickets to get us through Pass Gates for free.






These tickets are about the size of playing cards (except for the notches at the bottom) in fact they feel like cards without the coating. Check out the mini Unispheres as the safety pattern!

The Santa Fe Magazine - August 1955

Welcome to Magazine Monday. Today we’re going back to where and when it all started with the debut of Disneyland as chronicled in this August 1955 Issue of The Santa Fe Magazine. Walt’s smile is so infectious even old Mr. Gurley is grinning like a little boy.





There’s a lot of industry insider stuff in here, if any of you railroad buffs are
interested in any of these articles just let me know.





This five page Disneyland article is one of the better “day one” articles. This is back when it was still very fresh on everyone’s mind. Of course the focus of the article is on “Santa Fe”, but hey, the train was and still is the focal point of the entrance. There’s lots of standard stuff in the text, but some fun details too.








The photos on these last two pages are outstanding.







An excellent article about a boys ranch in Amarillo Texas where “maverick and delinquent youngsters farm and ranch 3,000 acres and go to school…” The boys also took a trip to Disneyland, all 200 of them!









For the accountant’s out there.





As with these industry magazines there really aren’t many advertisements and they are mostly “business to business” (boring) - This one however caught my eye, fun art work.





Is the back cover trying to tell us something?

Ticket Book Comparison - 1971 vs. 1972

Let’s take a look at some minor yet noticeable changes that occurred with the Disneyland Ticket Books back in the early 1970’s. The Ticket Book on the top is from May 1971 and as you can see the welcome message is printed in two colors, mostly black and then some cool "Disneyland purple", with the “W” being my favorite. The lower Ticket Book from March 1973 is lacking its two-tone welcome message, I think Kevin Yee calls the “declining by degrees”.





The back of Ticket books were really changed around. May 1971 (top) still has the purple castle and the “D” in Disneyland is nicely stenciled. Also Walt’s stylized signature (with an apostrophe 's added) appears on the back of the 1971 book, even though it was removed from the welcome message in 1967 and replaced with “Walt Disney Productions" as show above. March 1972 (below) saw the final removal of Walt’s signature, the "Disneyland purple" has been replaced with red, the stencil on the “D” is gone and the Disneyland font seems to have been tightened up or something. At least the price was the same!





The only printed change on these two “D” tickets is the addition of Bear Country on the March 1972 ticket (below) and all that did was move the Canoes from Frontierland to Bear Country. The bigger change can be seen in the Globe safety paper. Notice on the 1971 ticket the watermark lines are sort of a zig-zag of straight lines (like the one in the header of this blog). On the 1972 ticket the lines are now rounded or wavy - groovy baby.





The “A” ticket appears to have been printed on the older style of paper. There were no “E” tickets left in this book (naturally) and I’m too lazy to dig up one from the correct year, but you can see one from 1973 here (link).





From what I can tell the attraction list has one new land and one new attraction.

Trip Report - January 31, 2011

Time for the first 2011 trip report! Come check out a quick trip to a very un-crowded park. Also check out the new exhibit in the Disney Gallery.



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Circus Fantasy at Disneyland - February 1 and 2, 1986

Are you ready for a “Circus Fantasy” at Disneyland? From February 1 and 2, 1986, I believe this was the first year of “Circus Fantasy” but not the last, see my "Circus Fantasy 1988" post here (link).





PSA, a Pontiac, Video Cassettes, TV’s with a picture tube and a Camera that uses film – all of these things are gone; it’s been a long 25 years!






There is a ton of entertainment, even if it does seem kind of odd. “Clown Alley” – no thanks! Captain Christopher Munoz, the Human Missile – sounds intriguing. The “Now Sound” with Airplay, wasn’t the “now sound" back in 1969? And Clown Face Painting so even the guests look creepy.




Another passport I need to find for my collection, anyone have one of these???





Annual passport at $109 seem like a bargain!





Back when American Express had class.

Bonus Sunday

Welcome to Bonus Sunday, from Thursdays post here is the entire issue of Vacationland from the Fall of 1963.




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There are some great articles in this vintage issue.







Boy does this place look like it was neat.





Always nice to see a "new to me" Walt photo. (I want that flag)





I've got all of these except the "Stereo Showcase" reel!

Disneyland News - Boys Club Edition February 1970

In anticipation of Boys Clubs Days at Disneyland, this publication went out to all the club members in late January 1970. Exclusive ticket plans include Magi-Pak Ticket Books (links to previous Magi-Pak posts; Link-1, Link-2).






Lots of cool attractions for Boys Club Days.







Free parking!!





Here’s your order form, hurry, the deadline is February 18th. Go both days! Special Unlimited Free Play for one hour on Saturday and TWO hours on Sunday, nice!

One lonely "E" Ticket - October 1963

This Disneyland ticket book from October 1963 has only one ticket left and it’s an “E” ticket – how could that have happened?





All five of Walt's realms are represented on this classic longer form “E” ticket. Ironically, 48 years later four of the realms still have the same attractions! If only they had kept Nature’s Wonderland.





It’s all good.





$3.95, that’s about the price of a Churro.





It’s been a while since we had a vintage Vacationland, here’s the cover to the Fall 1963 issue.





Even though the “River Belle” has been remodeled a few times it still looks pretty much the same today.





The entire show is presented in “Audio-Animatronics”.





Great early color photo of the interior – I want one of those chairs!





Yummy! Come back on Bonus Sunday for the entire issue.