Bonus Sunday - It's New and It's Now

Welcome to Bonus Sunday. Be sure to check out my Trip Report blog when you're done here, no new trip report, but a new post with a fun look at the Disneyland “Backstage Pass” Magazine.


Trip Report Blog - Disneyland “Backstage Pass”


This newspaper supplement is from 1972 and is all about the new land and new attraction at Disneyland.






This large supplement has aged rather well, not much fading at all. They appeared to have used some serious ink on this thing; it feels like it was just printed yesterday!






The Main Street Electrical Parade was pretty new too, I always like the early art work for MSEP.






A whole new “Day after Dark” at Disneyland. Check out that entertainment line up, Buddy Rich! Harry James!! Disneyland doesn’t have anything like this anymore, why not?






The whole supplement opens up to this BIG weird map of the park. This is like where’s Waldo on steroids! I had to stitch together 4 scans, and as usual it came out “OK”

Videopolis Passport Coupon

This was supposed to be posted back in June but got lost somehow among my other posts, so pretend its June.

From 1985, the New Videopolis offered a Summer Passport for $40! Yes, that's right, you can visit Disneyland "night after night, anytime after 5pm, all summer long*" *June 22 thru September 7. This coupon for $5 off was given out on one of the Grad Nites, I'm guessing the Summer Passport was available to the public also.

Isn't that ID card great, love that '80's hair! Does anyone have one of these, if so we'd like to see it.

Souvenir Thursday & a new Trip Report blog

Today is Modern souvenir day here on the blog. Before we get started with the souvenir, please take note that I have created a new blog to off-load my trip reports. Having recently tried to show my blog to someone only to have it hang there while loading 40+ photos, I decided to move the trip reports to their own blog. It’s sort of a sub-blog to this one. Please be sure and visit the new blog as there is a brand new post today. I’ll still let you know about the trip reports here with a photo and a link.


Disneyland Trip Reports Blog – November 17, 2009


On my trip to the park on Tuesday I actually bought myself a souvenir and not just a $5 antenna ball! The photo below is from a visit to the park in October when I spotted this Silver “E” ticket. At the time I didn’t have an extra $75 for this unexpected find.






Well I saved my pennies and bought myself a Silver E-Ticket! It’s pretty cool & heavy. This is correct for a 1960 “E” ticket. Note I got #149 of 1,955 produced.








The Silver “E” ticket comes in this fancy velvet box from the “Art of Disney Theme Parks”.






Also included is this replica 1960 ticket book minus the “E” ticket of course. While the attractions are correct, you could argue that the “B” ticket is missing the Midget Autopia and the “D” ticket is missing Storybook Land and the Columbia, but they're close enough. The paper is all wrong however, I believe this is the same replica book that came with a Gold “E” ticket a few years back. Either way, it’s not even close to the excellent 1959 Replica Ticket book from two years ago (link).






$75 is a bit step for a silver plated ticket, but as luck would have it the good folks at Disneyland upped the premium AP discount to 20% for the Holiday’s!






My Certificate of Verification. Who would try and forge one of these anyway?






The velvet box also comes inside of another box emblazoned with this logo.

André Tahon - R.I.P.

André Tahon - R.I.P.

Imagine my surprise when I received an email from a puppet. Not just any puppet but from the Great Papotin himself.






However, Papotin was bearing some very sad news… His “Daddy” André Tahon passed away in August of this year.





These are images from a .pdf file Papotin sent me. You can download the original file here (link).









As a tribute to André and his grand puppets, here’s a replay of my post from last July.

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“Two Wonderful Ways to Enjoy Disneyland” from the Summer of 1963.






I’ve never noticed the guided tours being called a “Happiness Trip” before, I bet they dropped that pretty quick.






Do you think Disneyland is open every day in the summer?






Don’t miss this “Unique Special Attraction – Direct from Paris” its Andre Tahon and “Papotin’s Revue”. This show ran only for a few months in 1963, but still managed over 500 shows! Please “Present an ‘E’ Coupon from your ticket book”…






Here’s the aforementioned “E” ticket from June 1963.






Mr. Tahon himself, he looks better than his drawing above. Check out this blog (link) for tons of information on Andre.






And from Jed’s somewhat dormant but still excellent blog, here are two rare promotional items from these two posts on his blog "Vintage Disneyland Goodies". (link) and (link). Be sure and read the comments on those posts, lots of great information.

"Holy Grail of Disneyland Ticket Books"

Every once in a while something extra special shows up on eBay. Since I’m not independently wealthy, the only way some of these specialties will show up on this blog is if I show the EBay listing.

According to the seller, this is the “Holy Grail of Disneyland Tickets”. I pretty much have to agree there. From the listing “On October 11th 1955 Disneyland put out it's first Ticket Book which had 8 tickets in it 3 A Tickets, 2 B Tickets and 3 C Tickets. This book up for auction has 2 A Tickets, 1 B Ticket and 2 C Tickets all in Excellent to Near Mint Condition. Only the Very First Ticket Books had the Word RIDE under the Large Letter on each ticket, which makes this ticket book real RARE. Towards the end of 1955 Walt Disney had made a decision to take the word Ride off the ticket books and replace it with the word COUPON. He said the word RIDE made him feel like it was a carnival ride”.






The eBay auction is here (link). As far as the price; it's at $975 now which was the opening bid. There was a “buy-it-now” option for $1,475, but now that someone has bid (not me!) that option is gone. Is that price fair? I have no idea hard evidence, but that seems about right.

I’ve heard that there is a ticket book out there that may predate this one. It is reported to have little drawings of the attractions (or rides) on each ticket. This information comes from the utmost reliable source; however I’ve never seen them myself.

Here's the tickets in the auction.






The tickets do look to be in excellent condition.






The “C” ticket in 1955 was the top of the line. I love the special font for all five of the realm titles.







Christmas is just around the corner – wouldn’t this make a great gift for that special Disneyland Ticket collector/blog operator you know?

Algo Magazine - October 1964

Welcome to an international version of Magazine Monday, or "Bienvenido a una versión internacional de Revista el lunes". From October 1964 its Algo Magazine, direct from Barcelona. I don’t speak Spanish (the internet did the above translation) so you are on your own with the vintage text in this post.






I see a phone number and something about subscriptions rates.






“Disneylandia” interesting choice of photos in this article.






Could these two kids be less excited? I like the Main Street Station shot. Doesn’t the Gully Whumper look swell on the Rivers of America? Imagine the PR you ring out of bringing the Gully Whumper back to the river for the 55th anniversary. Get Fess Parker involved, re-release the old Keel Boat movies, and sell tons of Davey Crocket related merchandise. Are you listing George?






These are nice photos also. Too bad the inside pages are basically news print on cheap paper!






At least this color beauty was on the back cover. The flight circle looks empty, Cox Pilot must be on a break. The Yachtsmen are nowhere to be found either, but their little stage sure is cool. Its amazing to me that the hydraulic mechanism that moves the Rockets Jets is the exact same mechanism that's still up on top of the PeopleMover platform, I’m sad that it’s now a joke.






No Advertisements, so here's a couple of fun articles. Monorails in Japan? Those things are ugly; didn’t they have a Japanese equivalent of Bob Gurr?








Hmmm, this submarine design looks vaguely familiar?






In the text there's something about 1,000 meters, so there must not be too many similarities to Disneyland’s Submarines, we all know those only submerge 500 meters.

Bonus Sunday

Welcome to Bonus Sunday. From Thursday's Divers at Disneyland post, here is the complete Fall/Winter 1978-79 issue of Vacationland.


Vacationland Fall/Winter 1978-79 - 90mb







Mickey will be 81 on Wednesday!






The Egg House looks fun, so does Movieland Wax Museum!





Things that make you go "hmmmm"

Golden Horseshoe Reservation Ticket

At one time you needed a reservation at the Golden Horseshoe. I’m guessing this was back when they actually had waitresses that brought you food you ordered from a menu like this one (link) from Stuff from the Park. This reservation card is undated, the style is similar to the menu and the Pepsi logo suggests it’s from the 1970’s. The code on the bottom right makes no sense at all to me…






How about a short game of “Before and After” with the Golden Horseshoe’s next door neighbor? Again from the wonderful “Stuff from the Park” blog, here’s the Oaks Tavern from 1960.






The Tavern gave way to the Stage Door Café in 1978. This photo from last week shows the changes over 49 years. Some elements are identical (how cool is that!) and there are some significant changes. Here’s my big question; what happened to the wooden porch? Not only is it gone, but did the ground actually rise or did the building get lower?




Happy Friday the 13th!