Disneyland Holiday Winter, 1957-58 - 80mb
You can "fly to the moon"...
Vintage color photos in the centerfold.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Bonus Sunday
Welcome to Bonus Sunday. From Friday's post, here is the complete issue of Disneyland Holiday Winter, 1957-58
Disneyland Holiday Winter, 1957-58 - 80mb
You can "fly to the moon"...
Vintage color photos in the centerfold.
Disneyland Holiday Winter, 1957-58 - 80mb
You can "fly to the moon"...
Vintage color photos in the centerfold.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Disneyland Hotel - 1957
Time for a vintage look at the Disneyland Hotel. From November 1957, this brochure tells the tale of one neat hotel, the pride of ownership sure shines thru on these pages.
"Disneyland Park… Now open 7 days a week". Huh? I thought the park was closed on Monday’s and Tuesday’s during the winter well into the 1980’s???
Look at this size of the “Sport Fish” that guy caught - WOW!
“A planned trip is a more pleasant trip” and $10 for a room is sure sounds pleasant to me.
To go with our vintage Disneyland Hotel brochure here’s the cover of the Winter 1957-58 edition of Disneyland Holiday.
More explanation of “Disneyland Now Open Every Day” – I wonder how they explained why they went back to being closed Monday’s and Tuesday’s in the winter months for the next few decades?
This panorama shot reminds me of Major's fantastic April fools post from 2008 (link).
Come back Bonus Sunday for the entire Winter 1957-58 issue of Disneyland Holiday.
"Disneyland Park… Now open 7 days a week". Huh? I thought the park was closed on Monday’s and Tuesday’s during the winter well into the 1980’s???
Look at this size of the “Sport Fish” that guy caught - WOW!
“A planned trip is a more pleasant trip” and $10 for a room is sure sounds pleasant to me.
To go with our vintage Disneyland Hotel brochure here’s the cover of the Winter 1957-58 edition of Disneyland Holiday.
More explanation of “Disneyland Now Open Every Day” – I wonder how they explained why they went back to being closed Monday’s and Tuesday’s in the winter months for the next few decades?
This panorama shot reminds me of Major's fantastic April fools post from 2008 (link).
Come back Bonus Sunday for the entire Winter 1957-58 issue of Disneyland Holiday.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
1997 Disneyland Publicity Photos
For today’s post we’ve got some semi-vintage Disneyland publicity photos from 1997. Light Magic “A Spectacular Journey” certainly had a great logo, just a small part of the big $$$ Disney spent on this “Nighttime Street Extravaganza”.
Normally you could argue this “concept art” is awful, but compare it to photos of the real thing and suddenly this looks great!
Speaking of lots of money spent, didn’t Disneyland carve out an entire attraction sized area for this show and now it sits rarely used? Is Phoebus played by Peter Scolari? Don’t laugh, he was working for the mouse in 1997 (link).
Back to sanity, here are a few “normal” photos. Where is the “Raging Waterfall” on Big Thunder, don’t tell me it’s that weird dripping thing on the first lift-hill?
“Sail past… cascading waterfalls” only for one more year (link).
“Fun & Sun”, hey those huge beach balls do look like fun!
Normally you could argue this “concept art” is awful, but compare it to photos of the real thing and suddenly this looks great!
Speaking of lots of money spent, didn’t Disneyland carve out an entire attraction sized area for this show and now it sits rarely used? Is Phoebus played by Peter Scolari? Don’t laugh, he was working for the mouse in 1997 (link).
Back to sanity, here are a few “normal” photos. Where is the “Raging Waterfall” on Big Thunder, don’t tell me it’s that weird dripping thing on the first lift-hill?
“Sail past… cascading waterfalls” only for one more year (link).
“Fun & Sun”, hey those huge beach balls do look like fun!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Castle View's - 1960
We’ve got a few interesting vintage snap shots to look at today. These first two I suppose could be described as “before and after” of “after and before”. The first photo is dated December 1960.
The second photo is (scream it with me) undated. It appears to show quite a bit more overgrown landscaping than the December 1960 photo above; this must be “after”?
This close up of the Castle is also undated.
The Castle as viewed from the left side, dated August 1960. I like how this set of photos is nearly devoid of people, my kind of photographer!
The second photo is (scream it with me) undated. It appears to show quite a bit more overgrown landscaping than the December 1960 photo above; this must be “after”?
This close up of the Castle is also undated.
The Castle as viewed from the left side, dated August 1960. I like how this set of photos is nearly devoid of people, my kind of photographer!
Monday, January 18, 2010
New West Magazine - December 4, 1978
Welcome to Magazine Monday. Today we’ve got lots of Disney articles is the December 4, 1978 edition of New West Magazine. New West was started in 1972 by New York Magazine to cover California life. “The Disney Vision” is a series of lengthy articles with lots of text.
A great article, with a lot to say. I’m thinking the editors had the feeling that the more words the more intellectual it will seem.
Cartoons Come Back! Funky early Pinocchio sketch.
Interesting stuff here… Lord of the Rings? More about that later.
Everyone seemed to know the upcoming ECPOT was not Walt’s vision, so why bother?
A sign of the times…
How about some vintage advertisements? Most of the ads are for booze, this being the best one, give Amaretto to a Priest, whisper in his ear then watch him smile.
The American car companies were in a world of hurt in 1978 (has history repeated itself?) therefore there is a noticeable lack of any ads from them. VW of course stepped right in and was ready to sell you a Rabbit (pulled from a hat of course).
Ok, technically this is an American car company, but this cute little Challenger was imported from Japan. Gotta love that interior!
“The New Toyota Truck” nah, it’ll never sell.
“The Lord of the Rings”. I must have completely missed this back in 1978. Most notable for its extensive use of “rotoscoping”, this movie looks pretty bad (link).
Glad Rags indeed.
What? You can record a show and watch a different one at the same time, pure magic. I bet within 10 years everyone will have a BetaMax in their living room.
A great article, with a lot to say. I’m thinking the editors had the feeling that the more words the more intellectual it will seem.
At the end of the article John Hench notices the trees on Main Street have grown too large and are out of scale, "I guess we're going to have to do something about that" he says, and in 1981 they did so something about it (link).
Cartoons Come Back! Funky early Pinocchio sketch.
Interesting stuff here… Lord of the Rings? More about that later.
Everyone seemed to know the upcoming ECPOT was not Walt’s vision, so why bother?
A sign of the times…
How about some vintage advertisements? Most of the ads are for booze, this being the best one, give Amaretto to a Priest, whisper in his ear then watch him smile.
The American car companies were in a world of hurt in 1978 (has history repeated itself?) therefore there is a noticeable lack of any ads from them. VW of course stepped right in and was ready to sell you a Rabbit (pulled from a hat of course).
Ok, technically this is an American car company, but this cute little Challenger was imported from Japan. Gotta love that interior!
“The New Toyota Truck” nah, it’ll never sell.
“The Lord of the Rings”. I must have completely missed this back in 1978. Most notable for its extensive use of “rotoscoping”, this movie looks pretty bad (link).
Glad Rags indeed.
What? You can record a show and watch a different one at the same time, pure magic. I bet within 10 years everyone will have a BetaMax in their living room.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Bonus Sunday
Welcome to Bonus Sunday. From Friday's post, here is the complete Summer 1978 "Your Complete Guide to Walt Disney World".
1978 Walt Disney World Guide Book - 50mb
And how about some nice vintage WDW Postcards to go with the guide book? This first one is my favorite.
This had to be the coolest attraction when the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971, I sure wish I could have seen it.
These AA's look just like their Anaheim twins, the attraction however is not a twin.
Odd...
This is just creepy, it reminds me of the one of the first Walt Disney World commercials (link) what were they thinking?
1978 Walt Disney World Guide Book - 50mb
And how about some nice vintage WDW Postcards to go with the guide book? This first one is my favorite.
This had to be the coolest attraction when the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971, I sure wish I could have seen it.
These AA's look just like their Anaheim twins, the attraction however is not a twin.
Odd...
This is just creepy, it reminds me of the one of the first Walt Disney World commercials (link) what were they thinking?
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