Jason Schultz
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Tomorrowland would be different if that track had random Stormtroopers walking around aiming down at Guests like this. (This is from the Star Tours—The Adventures Continue dedication in 2011.)
Oh no! We're pretty sure the Spreckels people had made a few before the advertisement photo, so we're going to keep going until we get that accuracy.
These are certainly decorations, but I don't know that I would classify them in the same manner as the tall flags of the past.
Wife’s impromptu attempt #1 at this cake. Marrrrk Twaaaaiiiin!
Does Tomorrowland have any flag poles left?
For the first ~40 years, they were a big part of the land, from the Court of Honor, to the Avenue of the Flags, to the entrance flag in 1967 and then the flags which replaced the GE logo on the Carousel Theater.
And hey, today is the anniversary of Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes opening in 1971! Here's a recent view of the attraction's main sign (which has always felt really small to me).
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Vacationland turned up a photo of this sign for Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes I hadn't seen before, from when Bear Country was new in 1972.
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I thought the Frontierland Pier nomenclature on the Mark Twain attraction ticket was interesting (I use "Riverboat Landing"). But it's been on Frontierland guidepost signage for ages. Here are examples from 1966, 1999, and 2021.
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Most artwork depicts the Mark Twain as it actually exists, without the gangplank you would have found on a real steamboat. Here are two other pieces of ephemera which include it.
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Most artwork depicts the Mark Twain as it actually exists, without the gangplank you would have found on a real steamboat. Here are two other pieces of ephemera which include it.
If you find yourself at Disneyland on Saturday, October 1, 1960—take this.
Parkendium Update: 52 guidemaps, December 3, 1994-March 1999 (227 assets)
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Vacationland turned up a photo of this sign for Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes I hadn't seen before, from when Bear Country was new in 1972.
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#25YearsAgoTodayAtDisneyland (5/19/1999) The Rocket Rods were repeating, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can"...
A real store inside Disneyland! No characters, just what the name said: One-of-a-Kind Shop.
Souvenir slide from the 1960s.
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Vacationland first ran this flipped photo of the Mark Twain at the beginning of 1965.
Three years later, they did it again!
Parkendium Update: V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N!(land) V3-V28, 1959-1984 (75 issues) (1,554 asset)
Missing a few issues, but lots of classic Disneyland goodness!
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The public telephones signal how long ago Disneyland's 50th anniversary was.
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Retweeting for no reason in particular than there is no evidence a red/white light bulb existed here in 20th century Disneyland—and lots of evidence against it!
Early 2000s shot of Grizzly Peak from the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail. Trees getting more beautiful also changes sight lines!
Michael Eisner at a Town Square ceremony in September 2001. But why the big smile, Mickey?
December 1999 Outdoor Vending cart at Disneyland.
What is "Show," anyway?
1950s Disneyland can feel really far away. "Betty Hall, employee in the Frontier Gun Shop, demonstrates an early American rifle. The Gun Shop features a display of authentic fire arms from all periods of U.S. history, along with gun reproduction designed especially for the kids."
Imagine getting Guests to read something before purchasing tickets!
1957 brochure
If you find yourself at Disneyland on Saturday, October 1, 1960—take this.
Parkendium Update: Disneyland Holiday/Vacationland photographs, maps and advertisements (202 assets)
Individually cropped, captions transcribed, and indexed
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Silent film star Mary Pickford comes to Disneyland and finds...herself, at the Main Street Cinema!
Based in part on discussion with friends about the size of the sign and the limited changes between the sponsored and sponsor-free version, I don’t think this was a real sign Tomorrowland visitors saw.
Odd sign outside Circarama from the Winter 1958 Vacationland magazine. It's the only photo I know of to show it. It appears to have been put up between the other two photos posted here (9/3/1958 and January 1959) when American Motors ended its sponsorship.
Fantastic Charles Boyer overview of the Jungle Cruise pre-Indiana Jones Adventure, used as the cover for the Fall/Winter 1981-82 Vacationland magazine.
I thought LJ was gone. Your post instantly brought my very lightly used account back to mind and I saw it for the first time in 18 years!
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Nice landscaping shot of Tomorrowland's entrance in the 1950s. Original orange tree at left!
Odd sign outside Circarama from the Winter 1958 Vacationland magazine. It's the only photo I know of to show it. It appears to have been put up between the other two photos posted here (9/3/1958 and January 1959) when American Motors ended its sponsorship.
Parkendium Update: Disneyland Holiday/Vacationland Volume 2 (1958) (87 assets)
Come for the covers, stay for the maps! Individually cropped photos and advertisements coming as soon as I get them indexed.
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From the Fall 1957 Disneyland Holiday magazine, a super rare photo of Dee Fisher performing in a daily concert at Wurlitzer Music Hall.
It's hard to believe but next month America Sings turns 50 years old! Let's start the celebration with this four-page spread from that summer's Vacationland. (But "why" is "everything" in "quotation marks"?)
Mother's Day was acknowledged in the earliest planning for Disneyland, mentioned here in the 1953 prospectus as something to be celebrated at Holidayland.
Advertising for Disneyland's first Mother's Day (5/13/1956)
You can say it with hearts and flowers, but...
The best way to say "Happy Mother's Day" is to take Mom to DISNEYLAND, The Happiest Place On Earth, for dinner and a day of family fun. P.S.-it's this week-end.
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From the Fall 1957 Disneyland Holiday magazine, a super rare photo of Dee Fisher performing in a daily concert at Wurlitzer Music Hall.
Parkendium Update: Disneyland Holiday Volume 1 (1957) (4 issues) (228 assets)
I recently scanned a nearly complete (95%) run of DH/Vacationland (1957-1984). For my sanity, I'll be adding per volume as processed. I am also cropping and indexing the individual Disneyland assets.
