A Complete Edition About Walt Disney World “The Vacation Kingdom of the World” - 1969

A repeat post from 2008, but well worth a second look and if you missed it the first time, be sure and check it out!

From 1969: A Complete Edition About Walt Disney World “The Vacation Kingdom of the World”. This booklet is an extensive look at how the Disney company thought Walt Disney World would become. While a lot of these details did end up in the final version(s), several of the ideas died somewhere between this booklet and reality.




Fascinating stuff on these pages, the Western River Expedition would have been amazing from what I have read, same for Thunder Mesa.




Wow, these hotels would have been neat, that big dome at the Persian would have been something to see.

This Hotel turned out nicely.

This is the last page of the text. Check out where some of the needed cash would come from “regular cash flow accruing to the corporation from its operations during the next three years”. Counting chickens before they hatch can be dangerous…. Was this the cash that would have paid for Western River Expedition & Thunder Mesa or the Hotels that never were?




The front and back covers are actually one big picture. It’s this great late 60’s style artist concept of the entire “phase one” of the new resort. Hey, is the Monorail going THRU Tomorrowland like it’s supposed to?




Here is entire booklet of A Complete Edition About Walt Disney World “The Vacation Kingdom of the World”.

A Complete Edition About Walt Disney World - 40mb

Walt Disney World - Grad Nite '74

When I think of “Grad Nite” Disneyland usually comes to mind but of course the East Coast Park had its “Grad Nites” also. The cover to the Grad Nite ’74 souvenir program sure is interesting, in fact it kind of gives me the creeps, I think the “mannequin” faced couple is primarily responsible for that.








Canned Heat and The Stylistics, presumably not playing together, but then again, its 1974 so who knows… Maybe this is when they formed the “Betcha by Golly, Wow – On the Road Again” tour.

Walt Disney World Transportation Tickets

Our sister park in Florida has a Fortieth Birthday coming up in a couple of weeks so let’s help celebrate with some Walt Disney World posts! Sometimes when I post Walt Disney World stuff I get mixed reactions, there’s a couple readers that have told me they just skip right over my WDW posts – no worries, there’s always plenty of Disneyland stuff to post, but for the next couple weeks expect to see a few Walt Disney World posts.

Let’s take a look at a some WDW Transportation Tickets. Yes you park about 20 miles from the actual theme park in Florida so walking is not an option, OK its not that far, but unless you can swim, you'll need one of these tickets. Usually a Transportation Ticket was included in the ticket book as seen here in my September 2010 post (link). These tickets appear to have been sold separately, I guess in case you wanted to only ride the Monorail and not enter the park, sounds fun to me!




Use this Transportation Ticket and you assume all risk. “They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into, I say, let 'em crash”.




The Child ticket was $1 cheaper than the Adult Ticket and pink?




I don’t have a standalone Junior Transportation Ticket in my collection, so here’s one attached to a ticket book along with a Main Gate Admission ticket.





This book only had one ticket left, but boy are there a lot of good choices on this “D” ticket from February 1977. Mickey Mouse Revue for me!




Those elegant curly-cues let you know this is the upscale “East Coast” park.




For a few years they didn’t put the attraction list on the inside back cover, just a note about the “free” attractions.




Of course Florida had to be different with the back cover and go with a “Portrait” orientation.





From a Bonus Sunday post back in July 2008 here’s the complete “Your Complete Guide to Walt Disney World” 1977. July 2008 was back from when I made my first (and only) trip to Walt Disney World, check out my Trip Reports here (part 1) and (part 2).


Walt Disney World Guide 1977 - 39mb




Here’s a rundown of the “lands” of Walt Disney World circa 1977.

Newsweek - July 7, 1958

Welcome to Magazine Monday - Newsweek July 7, 1958.




Well this is just barely a "Disneyland" article, but since there is a vintage Disneyland photo that's a good enough excuse to post some cool advertisements. Interesting "for profit" article - I wonder if Walt read stuff like this and what he thought of it?







Alaska was big news in July of 1958, wow that's a lot of land!




Great color palettes.




Future Disneyland sponsor showing off some cool systems, anti-skid brakes, maybe one daythey'll put those in automobiles?





Good thing I had the lasagna...




Blog reader Connie reports having used once of these little recorders, I have too, weren't they fun! A flexible belt that's a record you record yourself, needless to say these machines were expensive.




Who else is ready to drink whiskey while wearing a kilt and playing a bag-pipe? Major?

Bonus Sunday

Welcome to Bonus Sunday. From Wednesday's post (link) here's the Fall 1964 issue of Vacationland.




Download the entire issue here: Vacationland Fall 1964 - 115mb


Here's a few "double page" gems...








Anyone want to pan for gold?





I'm happy to report that Dapper Day at Disneyland was a blast! A nice turn out of a couple hundred well dressed, polite classy people - at one point it actually felt like one of those old Disneyland slides had come back to life. Checkout some pics from the event on Daveland's website (link). The event is set again for February 2012, I'll be there, you should try and get there too.

MSEP Commemorative Disneyland Passport - 1996

Today’s special Commemorative Disneyland Passport scans were donated by Major Pepperidge over at Gorilla’s Don’t Blog (link) – Thanks Major! From the Main Street Electrical Parades’ “Farewell Season” these tickets sure are elaborate.




As Major noticed, these two tickets are a set with the same serial number and “if you put them side by side (so that the "drum" overlapped), it makes one long image of the parade.” Very cool! Thanks again Major.




Comparing the artwork on the tickets and this “Annual Passholder Event” program they seem similar, but the artwork on the tickets is much more vivid. See the rest of the program from my prior post here (link).




Let’s compare the artwork to the “Original” from this 1972 newspaper supplement advertisement. See the rest of the 1972 newspaper supplement here (link).





Is anyone else going to Dapper Day at Disneyland tonight? I’ll be the guy with the Vintage Disneyland Tickets in his vest pocket – be sure and say Hi!