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01/01/2024

Ever wonder what became of the World Showcase Busses? We spotted one along a California highway in 2023. It turns out that it was being serviced near Fresno. We didn’t know at the time that it would appear one year later (Today, January 1, 2024) in the 2024 Tournament of Roses Parade.

04/16/2022

🏴‍☠️ VINTAGE VIEW: Skull Rock at Pirate’s Cove

Even five years after the attraction opened to the public, the Pirate Ship Restaurant continued to be an increasingly popular place to visit and play. So, during December of 1960, a thematic setting of Skull Rock and Pirate’s Cove was added around the lagoon adding new adventures in dining for Fantasyland audiences! The “Disneylander Employee Newsletter” (October-November, 1960) first officially divulged the new additions to fellow Disneylanders in a short article entitled “Pirate Ship To Have New And Exotic Setting” : “By the time you read this you’ll be aware that the Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship is closed for extensive rehab. It is scheduled to reopen about December 15th. Isolated by craggy cliffs covered with lush tropical foliage will be ‘Pirate’s Cove,’ where the Park’s well known Pirate Ship resides at anchor. WED designers have included in their plans the familiar landmark of Skull Rock from the Peter Pan story with three waterfalls cascading from rocky heights.”

Adding to the sights, many still recall the original scent of “pirates’ water” falling and spraying around this part of Fantasyland.

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04/13/2022

VINTAGE VIEW: Kathy & Carol aboard the Mark Twain as their groups explore, c.June of 1966.

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04/12/2022

VINTAGE VIEW: Under the early, historic American flags flown near the Frontierland Dock, c.1965 audiences wait to board the Mark Twain Steamboat and Sailing Ship Columbia at Disneyland.

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04/11/2022

☕️ VINTAGE VIEW: “Hills Bros. at Disneyland”

Hills Bros. was renown for its innovations - “Instant Coffee” and vacuum-packaged coffee beans! By June of 1958, Disneyland participation could be added to that list. After less than two years, participant corporate sponsor Maxwell Coffee would depart from Disneyland and Hills Bros. Coffee stepped in to sponsor the Hills Bros. Coffee Garden and restaurant.

The interior of the restaurant was still decorated in a “southern garden motif with an adjacent dining patio,” according to the “Disneyland Dictionary” (compiled by WED Enterprises, Inc. and WED Public Relations Department, c. 1968). Only now, guests were welcomed “to the garden of ‘Ahh!’” Hills Bros. remained the sponsor of the Hills Bros. Coffee Garden for almost twenty memorable years, outlasting old neighbors (and potential developments, as seen in today’s Vintage View)!

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04/08/2022

VINTAGE VIEW: The Sailing Ship Columbia moored near Catfish Cove on Tom Sawyer Island, c.1959.

The Sailing Ship Columbia’s hull would be the same size as the original c.1787 Columbia, but the height of the masts were the exception, which would need to be smaller, or else they would dwarf the Matterhorn (please see today’s Vintage View). Masts were made by Cliff Wavel, the largest an impressive 84 feet tall.

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04/06/2022

VINTAGE VIEW: “Adventure Thru Inner Space Tracking Crew”

🔬As we move through the queue, we note the impressive 12 foot-high and 37 foot-long Mighty Microscope, of which 40 miniature Atomobile cars make their way through the aperture, and into Inner Space. The voices of the tracking crew are heard:

“All phases verify bearing data…

🔵Phase Blue, Oculoscope tracking.

🔴Phase Red, Oculoscope tracking.
Compensate Nephoscope.
Affirmative… Phase Red, clear and tracking.

🟢Phase Green calibrating miniaturization factor and holding.

🟡Phase Yellow, miniaturization factor to the minus ten million and tracking…”

Are these words still suspended in timelessness inside YOUR mind?

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04/04/2022

VINTAGE VIEW: Movie star Charles Bronson takes time to enjoy a wonderful Guided Tour of Disneyland with the rest of the VIPs, during January of 1965.

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04/04/2022

Still drummin’ at Disneyland! The “Mickey Pull-Toy” float designed by Jody.
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Last of the Mickey and Friend Cavalcade shots.

04/02/2022

💐VINTAGE VIEW: “The Futuristic Flora of Tomorrowland”

Even before guests reached the towering Rocket to the Moon or the Tomorrowland exhibit halls (with their decorative molecular lighting), floral accents belonging to this the futuristic landscape made a necessary contribution to the story of Tomorrow! Just what would the flora of the future look like? Many years later, In interview with “E” Ticket magazine (Spring of 1996) Bill Evans divulged: “There was no reference book we could follow because Tomorrowland had never been done. What we did was use plant material that was assertive enough that it would make its presence known. We wanted bold, gutsy plant material which would compete with all the stylized structures we used in the early days… We weren’t going for some Martian garden, or anything like that, but we were trying to compliment the architecture without being too low key.” Flowering plants don’t get more “bold” or “gutsy” than the bird of paradise - ever present in the Tomorrowland of the 1950s and the New Tomorrowland of 1967.

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04/01/2022

VINTAGE VIEW: “The Disneyland Drama Club presents ‘The American Dame’”

How did Disneyland cast members once celebrate women’s history? If you were lucky enough to have a family member who worked for Disneyland in 1970, you may have had the opportunity to visit Fantasyland Theater after hours for the first Disneyland Drama Workshop production - The American Dame! Connie Lane (former Disneyland Ambassador of 1966, and Disneyland Drama Club member) recollects the production : “It was effervescent! We were doing a great show, in the Fantasyland Theatre and doing something that hadn’t been done before at Disneyland. The show was meant to be a study of American Womanhood. We all had several roles.”

Pictured in today’s Vintage View are some of the stars including Pat Keener, Suezanne Fisher, Connie Lane, Sharon Wimmer, and Sandie Schumacher, in addition to the program’s cover and a special letter from a very impressed Disneyland Drama Workshop President Jim Heiss.

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03/31/2022

✨VINTAGE VIEW: Disneyland Chief Hostess Donna Partin and guests at the Small World Mall, November 27, 1968. and DisneyHistory101.com.

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