Knott's Berry Farm Flyer - May 1974

Here a fun and admittedly simple flyer from Knott's Berry Farm circa May 1974. You'll find me at the Haunted Shack!

Be sure and check out this upcoming Knott's event, assuming my social calendar is free, I'll see you there!

THE ART OF KNOTT'S BERRY FARM" EXHIBIT

Saturday, March 24th, 1pm - 4pm, Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant

Emphasizing shadows, silhouettes, low angles, and deep focus, Jay Jennings' photography presents a modern-day Knott's Berry Farm with a 1950s B&W sensibility. 

Admission is free. Three hours free parking in Marketplace lot. Limited Edition prints from the exhibit will be available for sale.

Disneyland Hotel Brochure - 1980's

Here's a fun brochure for the Disneyland Hotel.  There's something so cool about those simple Mickey Mouse balloons and ears!

I'm guessing none of this exists today.

The Waterfalls! R.I.P...

This brochure is not dated (man that drives me crazy!) But the Mime that looks like it mated with Mork from Ork would put this in the early 1980's. Calling Orson....

All kinds of neat things to look at here!

Nice simplified southern California freeway map, I miss the 80's.

Disneyland Ticket Exchange Policy Part 3 - Complete Book Exchanging Part 2

Let's continue our in depth look at Disneyland Ticket Exchange Policy of the early 1980's.  In the last post (link) we looked at some "Complete Ticket Books", regular and Magic Kingdom.  Today's post has more "Complete" books of various types.

Hospitality Books included admission to the park for two days so the exchange program would get you a two day passport for one of these. See more Hospitality Books here (link).

The "Military" books are cool and extra rare..

Naturally Major over at Gorilla don't Blog has a complete book (link).

Checkout more Magi-Pak tickets here (link)

Here'e Tigger's Early Bird Special Coupon, see the original post (link).

Want to see more of the Senior ticket book, try here (link).

Starlite Ticket books are ultra rare.

Of course major has a complete one of these too! (link)

Three Wonderful Ways to Enjoy Disneyland - 1961

Here's a super vintage Disneyland parking lot brochure from 1961.  The "tri-fold" design was introduced in 1961 and this is version 3.  You can see versions 4 and 5 over at Stuff from the Park (link).  

This is a "Special Season" version with special tickets choices. The guided tour is a few cents cheaper than summer season.  The "Special Season" ticket books were full of "any ride" tickets just like Magic Kingdom Tickets (I'll have to check and see if I have any of this 1961's my collection). And the "Passport" with unlimited rides was also available.

The best part of this little brochure is the on the spot accounting. It appears our party had three adults and two children. It also appears they either didn't but the ticket books and paid full price for the attractions OR they were doing the math to see if they saved money!  Passports for everyone would cost $25.50 so lets hope they chose wisely.

Looks like my average lunch at Disneyland.

Walt Disneyworld via Amtrak - 1974/75

Last week we took a look at taking the Train to Disneyland (link), now its Walt Disney Worlds turn.

Mad Magazine - September 1977

Welcome to Mad Magazine Monday.  Directly from my youth, this September 1977 edition of Mad Magazine is classic 70's Mad; it's just a bonus that it has an awesome 6 page Disneyland/Disney World article.  

Charlies Angels were all the rage in 1977 and Mad was ready to "bedevil" them in this issue.

On the inside of the front cover is one of the two advertisements in this magazine, both are for Mad of course.

The Disneyland and Disney World article starts of with this single page explaining what the two parks are about. This page is a fairly accurate and kind representation of the parks, somewhat odd for Mad. But don't worry, on the next five pages there is bound to be something to offend everyone.

The next four pages are really a time capsule into 1977.  They managed to cover most of the current events at the time.  Talk about politically un-correct; "The Pirates of the Middle East", "Fairyland of Sports" and  "In Old New Orleans" would certainly cause a stir these days.

Sort of an advertisement.

A hilarious spoof of  A Star is Born.   See the rest of the article here (part 2, part 3 and part 4).

There a bunch of fun cameo appearances in this article.  See the rest of the Angels article here (part 2 and  part 3).

Now a look at two of my favorite mad artist's.  First up is Sergio Aragones.  I love his simple and whimsical style, classic smiles with an occasional tongue out off to the side... Also, lots of pretty girls and silly situations.

Don Martin's style is somewhat different but I like it just as much.  Usually a cleaver irony or just some idiot that's clueless, the facial expressions are classic.

And what Mad Magazine would be worth its 60¢ if it didn't have a "Spy vs. Spy" segment. To be honest I never really "got" these, but I do love Sergio's little doodle on the bottom right of the page - Sergio's doodle are scattered about the entire magazine.

I'll take 81 "What-Me Worry" posters for $6.35

The inside back cover always had its "Mad Fold-in", some were better than others.

This one is pretty funny.

One of Don Martin's finest works on the back cover!

In case you missed my previous December 1956 Mad Magazine post back in January 2009, you can find it here (link).