Whittle's Want You!

This undated photo from Knott's Berry Farm features none other than Whittles himself!





Accoring to the vintage handwriting on the back this is indeed Whittles.

Disneyland in Slides - January 1967 - Part 2

We saw the first half of this Janaury 1967 set back in June (link) as always, the second half is not as nice as the first half but still fun to look at.

Slide Sunday - June 1965

Just one slide today, but what a great view though. June 1965.

The "F" Ticket

In June of 1959 Disneyland added the “E” ticket to its lineup of letter attractions tickets. The “E Ticket” has since become part of the American Lexicon. What's not as well know is that in the spring of 1964 Walt was looking for ways to increase Disneyland’s ticket revenue, that World’s Fair thing was costing him a bundle.

As was customary, Walt left the details to his trusted employees and they came up the idea of “plusing” all the existing E-ticket attractions at once and moving them to a new “F” Ticket. Rumor has it Walt was not keen on the use of the letter “F” (as in failure or worse) and the idea was quickly scrapped. What you are looking at here is an extremely rare June 1964 limited test run of Disneyland’s only “F” ticket.

Disneyland in Slides - 1950's

Today's small batch of slides suffer from the "undated" syndrome but this great shot of Fantasyland makes up for it. Hey, where was this photo taken from, looks to be pretty high off the ground? Maybe it was taken from the Skyway Chalet, although it seems like it would be more over to the left.





This photo of the hub does reveal a clue that these are pretty old. You can see one of those sign's (in front of Tomorrowland) that shows a map of the land ahead, I don't know when they removed those, but it must have in the first couple years?




The Mickey planter is looking pretty bare and kinda dull.





Come back tomorrow for a visit to January 1967.

Disneyland in Slides - August1960 - Part 2

The second half of this August 1960 batch of slides is not a nice as the first half, but I scanned um and your here reading this so lets go ahead and take a look. A nice blurry and random shot of the Train Station. Does the red, white and blue bunting mean this might be on or near July 4th?




The guests look happy enough, but I bet its hot as heck!




More patriotic bunting on the Mark Twain.






Ladies in dresses and men wearing hats, 52 years and a few worlds ago...




Last up a somewhat washed out shot of the original Tomorrrowland. Girl on the left appears to be eating something (candy?) out of a box. Stroller alert!





Come back tomorrow for a few slides that are even a bit older than these.

Disneyland in Slides - August1960 - Part 1

I hope you like Vintage Disneyland slides, because that’s what’s you're getting for the rest of the week here on the blog. Today we’ve got part one of a nice set of Kodachrome’s from August 1960. Up first a nice castle shot, looks like a busy day.




This not so great shot of the Matterhorn does manage to capture a couple of daring mountain climbers.





Looking across the hub I see a vintage Tomorrowland, let’s go check it out.




Great Tomorrowland entertainment, it doesn't get any better than this.




For some weird reason I like these last two shots, especially the last one.

Disneyland Festival Japan - March 27 & 28, 1982

Twenty Nine years ago Disneyland celebrated its Festival Japan on March 27 & 28 1982. Given current events in Japan I hope this post can add a smile to an otherwise tragic situation. My thoughts and prayers are with all the fine people of Japan.





This appears to have been a super Festival, Disneyland went all out here, maybe they were in a Japan mood because Tokyo Disneyland was getting ready to open?









Possibly Tokyo Magic can translate this for us?

Fabric Friday

Here's an unusual souvenir. This Disneyland "Fantasyland" fabric isn't dated but based on the Windmill attraction that was never built I'm guessing this is from 1955.











Yes you can see the vintage catalog I used to flatten the fabric on this scan, I'm too lazy to redo it...

Disneyland Discover America Game Ticket - 1983

As a salute to the 1984 U.S. Olympic Team Disneyland had its "Discover America Game" in 1983. Being an Instant Winner was a 20 to 1 odds proposition, with a prize of either an Olympic Pin (how exciting) or a Disneyland Passport (much better).





Lots of fun fine print courtesy of the mouse's lawyers. The Random Drawing has much better prizes.




Because I love my blog readers so much I was willing to rub off four squares and see if this ticket was a winner! But time has played a dirty trick on us, the coating over the squares has bonded to the paper, we'll never know if this was a winner!