Catholic School Days at Disneyland - April 12-16, 1982

From April 12th thru 16th 1982 it’s Catholic School Days at Disneyland. While this ticket appears to be the standard special event type "all you can ride "passport, it’s only good for admission to the park and unlimited use of all attractions for one “free play” hour, 10am to 11am after that you’re going to need lettered tickets? I was under the impression (mistaken possibly) that lettered tickets ceased to be sold at the main gate sometime during March 1982. If that’s the case then this “free play” ticket is really an all-day passport?





Did anyone else think of Kentucky Fried Movie?





How about a beautiful Vacationland from the spring of 1982? “Gideon and Pinocchio depend upon Foulfellow at the helm to guide them safely beyond Monstro the whale to the wonders of Storybook Land at Disneyland”. Hey I see a glimpse of the Pirate Ship and Skull Rock!





This is not helping me figure out when they stopped selling lettered tickets! “Instead of spending time buying tickets, visitors will have more time to experience every themed land in the Park”. OK but “Remember, your old A Thru E tickets are still valid”. Wikipedia states “By June 1982 coupons vanished entirely”. That must have been a confusing few months while they transitioned to passports only.




We saw the flyer for this event in a post back in late March (link).




Joanne Crawford (no relation to “no wire hangers”) is Disneyland’s Ambassador for 1982.




The back cover features the “Best of the West”.





Come back on Bonus Sunday for the entire issue.

Junior Scholastic Magazine - September 1955

Welcome to Magazine Monday. Today we’re going all the way back to the beginning, well almost. From September 1955 it’s the Junior Scholastic Magazine. This magazine is still available here (link) – OK - show of hands for those students in the 70’s that ordered from Scholastic Books? I sure did!





This 56 year old magazine has held up fairly well considering its basically printed on cheap newspaper. The Planters Peanut ad is fun and educational!





Don’t blink; The Disneyland article is only a one pager which was pretty typical since they didn’t even having any real photos yet. Notice the author was one the first visitors when the parked open to the public on July 18th. The Hub is called the “The Plaza”; I've seen that naming before – Jason would know... A ticket station for tickets to the Stage Coach - Cool. Nice plug for Storyland (Village), torn down in 1965 to build a Sears!




This whole man-made moon talk is just crazy. “By the 1970’s man may make his flight in outer space” that heresy! I suppose next you want me to believe that Ronald Reagan will be the president in the 1980’s and Jerry Lewis will be his Vice-President!





Check out Pat Boone, his follow-up to his first recording is in the “rock ‘n’ roll” field, “It’s not a dance tune”.




Hey – this is harder than it looks if you haven’t seen a classroom in a few decades.





This “Junior” educational magazine has a few cool advertisement. There’s nothing like a Coke, so true.





That's a great looking shirt and race car.




“Fill your fountain pen” Does anyone under 40 even know what that means?





Does anyone under 20 know what one of these is? No you can't send text messages with it, well actually you could!

Disneyland Spring Fling - April VIP (1992)

It’s time for another VIP ticket for Disneyland, we've seen VIP tickets before here for 1982, 1983, 1988 & 1994. This VIP ticket from April 1992 is a special Spring Fling April VIP ticket which also included a $5 discount on Queen Mary & Spruce Goose tickets. It’s nice to see the graphics department putting their new Intel-486DX2 (clocked at 50 MHz - lookout!) PC’s to good use with Print Artist 2.0 to create this fine piece of early 90’s goodness.





Riveting information on the back.

Magic Mountain Complimentary Ticket - 1980

Time to head two gallons (or $68) north of Disneyland and visit Magic Mountain in sunny Valencia California. This complimentary ticket from 1980 reflects the recent ownership change to Six Flags but still has the pre-Six Flags artwork (trolls included). The ticket itself (minus the stub) is the exact size of a check; the serial number is even in MICR print on the bottom.




The lawyers had a field day on the back of this ticket, Six Flags must have had already had this legal mumbo-jumbo from their other park’s tickets, thereof hereto! “Weldon, Williams & Lick - -Ft. Smith Ark” was the printer and maker of this fine safety paper.




This ticket is good anytime in 1980 but Magic Mountain is pretty much only open weekends in the off season. Here’s a calendar for the entire year so you can plan ahead.






Let’s add some color to this post with this November 1976 advertisement for “Fanciful curvilinear tensioned membrane structures” which of course were “part of the magic of Magic Mountain”. ALERT: Metro Monorail spotted - lower right photo - ***SAVE THE METRO***

The American Home Magazine - September 1957

Welcome to Magazine Monday on Wednesday, I would have had this posted on Monday but there’s just so much time and so little to do. Wait a minute, strike that - reverse it.

From September 1957 its The American Home Magazine, published from 1928 to 1977 when it merged with Redbook.




There are only two pages in this “Rare Antiques in Disneyland” article but it’s pretty high on the interesting scale and I’ve got some “before and after” things to checkout.




Where did some of this stuff go?





Here’s the collector print “Ready to frame”.





I hope you’re ready for a heap of vintage advertisements because this magazine is busting at the seams with them. Does the fact that this is the one and only car advertisement in this woman’s magazine does say something about who made car purchasing decisions in 1957?




Neato Kitchen!





I want to live in this house.




And this one.




And this one too.




Ah yes, one those low-quiet toilets that looks a lot cooler than its works.




Six lovely pastel colors. Hey is that lady half naked?




Who else agrees with me that this is the coolest darn refrigerator you’ve ever seen? Has anyone ever seen one of these in actual use? I want one! I wonder what kind of brackets held it up on the wall.




A more conventional appliance from GE - even in pink they look battle ready.




How about some laundry soap for your new automatic? That guy looks like Andy Griffith.




Cheer washes so white you can see the different. Isn’t it neat that these brands are still around?




Paging Andy Warhol.




These last two have some of the simple yet warm and comfortable drawing style that symbolizes the later part of the 1950’s.

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.