Cinderella Day at Disneyland - March 3, 1972

It’s Cinderella Day at Disneyland, Friday March 3, 1972. Obviously geared towards women, this daytime event included unlimited use of all attractions (except Shooting Galleries) PLUS; Fashion Shows, Garden Tours, Cooking Shows and a Free Recipe Book. I wonder if this (link) was the recipe book? French Market Onion Soup, Tom Sawyer’s Fish Skewer’s, Peco’s Bill’s Chili Con Carne – wow, now I’m hungry!






How about a look at a swell edition of Vacationland? From Winter/Spring 1972, isn’t the cover great? This is one of my favorite covers. Come back on Bonus Sunday for the entire issue.






Here’s OUR Tomorrowland! Interesting that Carousel of Progress gets three photos, wasn’t it removed not long after this? Mission control sure looks inviting, on my last “Flight to Mars” in the early 90’s I still marveled at Mission Control, I miss it.






If I ever have the need to give a gift to that special someone, that Cheeseburger Candle has got to be it!






This issue was printed just a few months before Bear County would open, however the bears didn’t make it on this map. The Indian Village is noticeably absent.






What kind of ink did they print these old Dolly Madison advertisements with? It so thick and even, it reminds me of the high-end paint they use at Disneyland. This ad is 38 years old, and it looks brand new. “Interstate Brands Corp.” now owns Hostess!

The Disney World - July 1967

Welcome to Magazine Monday. Since the Disneyland magazine stack is getting pretty low I thought we’d take a look at something a little more interesting today. From July 1967 it’s “The Disney World”. There was quite a bit of Walt’s energy still flowing though his company at this point. Walt’s most recent ideas were all still being worked on, keeping everyone very busy. There are so many references to Walt that you can almost feel a sense of “What's Next” from the editors.

The front and back covers make for one great photo of the Burbank Studio.






The preface explains Walt’s Living Legacy. I need to get that June 1967 Readers Digest!






That is one cool flow chart. There will be a quiz later.






Roy’s message “We will try and have one Mary Poppins a year, at least”. No pressure there!






Fascinating stuff about the start of the Florida project.






WED was on its game in 1967! Wow, those Goodyear Display’s take me to my happy place.






Great stuff about Audio-Animatronics.






WED’s Glendra von Kessel is working on the painted glass that can still be found in New Orleans Square (link).






Disneyland has made $3.40 per second! Awesome parking lot shot!






All kinds of amazing stuff in the New Tomorrowland 67! Bell previews a Picture Phone link with EXPO 67, wow I bet someday everyone will be using Picture Phones.






More than you ever wanted to know about the Disneyland University.






Neat story about how the Disneyland Lessees joined together to place nine advertisements in the June 1967 issue of Look Magazine which you can see here (link). This fact according to the article: Monsanto's Home of the Future boasts "15,000,000 visitors later this home still has a future" yeah, about a month...






More than just a VIP lounge, Club 33 opens at Disneyland. Since I’ve never been to Club 33 (hint, hint to anyone who will take me!) do they really have audio-animatronics consisting of an owl, a raccoon, two magpies and a leering vulture? And the owl holds conversations with guests?






I miss Circle-Vision, I don’t miss getting dizzy, but I finally had figured out by just staying put and not constantly turning around you can lessen the effects of motion sickness..






Mineral King was still alive and kicking in 1967. I can only assume that the approval for the four-lane highway never came thru.





I was going to post this entire issue of The Disney World on this upcoming Sunday, but since I had no post yesterday, here’s the entire issue.



The Disney World July 1967 – 102mb



And for some color, the back cover.

Knott's Free Child Admission Ticket

It’s time for a Vintage Knott’s Berry Farm Ticket. This little ticket was good for one child admission, accompanied by a “paid adult”. Knott’s started charging admission in 1968. This ticket is naturally undated. In 1969 it was 25¢ for a child admission, the 75¢ “value” on this ticket would place it from the early to mid 1970’s. Although this ticket has no expiration date, I bet Knott’s would only give you 75¢ off, not an actual child admission (a $23.99 "value") .






Looks like Hills Bros. Coffee must have sponsored this little ticket, I wonder if it came in a can of coffee? CHECK OUT WHITTLES! I’ve never seen him wear other costumes, or are those his brothers? Whittles was pretty much gone by mid 1976 so these must be from before then.






Here’s a few vintage Knott’s Photo’s. Also undated, but much older than the Hills Bros. ticket. These black & white prints are tiny (just 2” by 3”) and on curled-up paper. I’m guessing by the views that they are “souvenir” photos; you’d think they could be a little larger!

Neat Lake-Island-Bridge shot. Is that the backside of a chicken on the right side of the bridge?






Hey what do you know, it really was a farm!






Our little Chapel by the Lake looking great.






The Old Mill Stone looked like log until I scanned the photo and saw what it was!

Disneyland Today - February 24 & 25, 1996

It’s Disneyland Today! From February 24 & 25, 1996. Who can forget the amazing Toy Story Funhouse (link).






Small print anyone?






All of a sudden fourteen years ago seems like a long time. Captain EO was still open but the map only shows the “Magic Eye Theater”? Maybe they knew he was going to leave soon, I bet they didn’t think he would come back fourteen years later!






What was “film” and how did it work?

Captain EO Returns to Disneyland

Wanna come with me and check out the premier of Captain EO's return to the Magic Eye Theater in Tomorroland? Visit my trip report blog - link below:


Trip Report Captain EO - February 23, 2010

How the Magic Kingdom Grew in an Orange Grove

No time for text; I'm in line for the grand reopening of Captain EO!! There's about 300 people joining me!

Magazine Monday - Bottom of the Barrel

Welcome to Magazine Monday. Yes Magazine Monday still lives, sort of. We've pretty much reached the bottom of the stack, to the sub-obscure section. Since were getting at the “not to exciting” issues, you get two for one today.

Up first, from February 1986 if LIFE Magazine. LIFE was still a large format magazine in 1986, not the HUGE size it used to be, but still large at 10” by 13”. Bathing Beauties, what is this Sport Illustrated?






The Disneyland article is short and sweet at just two pages. I tried to paste the two pages together but Photoshop kept corrupting the whole mess so I gave up.






8,000 pounds of latex, what would the Green Police say about that today?







How about a few 1980’s vintage advertisements? It’s the Movie everyone’s been waiting to pay $89 for a fuzzy VHS tape. It's in my collection of VHS tapes.






This issue is full of cigarette and alcohol ads, who ran this magazine the Carrington’s? What’s with that weak Surgeon General’s warning? How about WARNING: “Smoke and Die”. And how about not even thinking of smoking near aviation fuel?






The guy on the left thinks something is really funny - he knows lamp shades will be involved later.






From July 26, 1992 it’s everyone favorite “Soap Opera” Magazine. I’m not missing the 90’s yet…






The cast from the famous soap “Santa Barbara” are Day Tripping at Disneyland in this silly two page spread.






There's only one advertisement in this magazine and it’s for, you guessed it, cigarettes! Eve’s style had evolved by the 1980’s, just like the women’s movement. “Made with gently steamed tobacco” alright, I not a woman or a smoker, but that sounds disgusting – sorta like sucking on a wet ashtray…

Trip Report - February 18, 2010

Please visit my Trip Report blog for a new report from Thursday February 18, 2010.


Disneyland Trip Reports Blog

Tale of Two Ships - 1974

Today’s we’ve got two ships from February 1974. I’ve also got the negatives for both of these photos and they are big, what format was this size (link)? Anyway, I bet they would make nice enlargements; these prints are just 3” by 3”.






The Tuna Boat looks like she could maybe use a coat of paint.

Ride the Fun Bus - Again

Way back in January 2008 I posted the weird ticket shown below (link). At the time I didn’t have any other information about the “Fun Bus” but have since found a little fold up brochure.






The Fun Bus was sort of an early version of the ART (Anaheim Resort Transit).








The “ART” doesn’t appear to go to Knott’s or Japanese Village, curse them! I bet they don't go to Movieland Was Museum either!






The time table for you time travelers who want to ride the Fun Bus, and who doesn’t? Hey, the Space Age Lodge is on the list!!!!






When you unfold the whole brochure you get this super Knott’s promotion. Did Knott’s own the Fun Bus?






This ticket book is dated May 1975. It does match the brochure above as far as price, but Knott’s didn’t seem to raise their prices as regularly as Disneyland did so the brochure could be from 1974.






This ticket book is an oddity. The Main Gate admission ticket and the back panel are from the 1970-74 type of ticket books, which only had “A” – Gold Nugget and “B” Silver Dollar tickets (link).






This May 1975 ticket book has the new ABCD tickets that closely resemble the Disneyland tickets in style and size. These are some of my favorite Knott’s tickets. They are crisp and new as the day they were printed (they’re from an unused book - "snapping" them from the book felt great). These neat colors are pretty much unique to the Knott’s Child tickets, especially the mustard? "C" ticket.