Subs and Alice, April 1966
Here are two sort of random photos today...
Fantasyland had oodles of flowers to brighten things up. I like flowers just fine, but usually don't get too excited about them to be honest. These are pretty spectacular though! Oh yeah, and there's the Alice in Wonderland attraction too...
You know this was originally supposed to be a glass-bottom boat attraction, didn't you? It's true. While I'm glad that they hit upon the submarine concept, I can't help but wonder what the Imagineers would have cooked up for the glass-bottom boats. 
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Something with Doris Day and Rod Taylor, maybe.
Er, um, er.... I assume there was a Doris Day movie about a glass-bottomed boat?
'Gray' love; thanks gorilla.
Glass bottom boats remind me of submarines with screen doors!!!!
I hear ya about the flowers, my house had "flowers & hearts" wall paper all over it when I moved in, that's long gone now! But even us macho guys can appreciate a bunch of nice flowers done the Disney way.
Cooked fish aren't very interesting to watch, which may be why the concept changed.
What would we see?
Mickey in diving gear finding a treasure chest as, behind him, Donald struggles in the clutches of an octopus and Goofy gets tangled in the air lines.
A huge whale swims under our boat. A moment later, the giant mammal bursts out of the water in front of us, rises on his tail and belts out a chorus of "Shortnin' Bread."
Yep, there was a movie called the Glass Bottom Boat. Dom DeLuise, Paul Lynde and Dick Martin were also in it, but I've never actually seen the movie. Personally, I prefer to see Rod Taylor get attacked by birds or Morlocks (WEEEE-NA!)
I love it when our anonymous photographers look for views of DL that are more interesting than just the front of Sleeping Beauty Castle or the Mark Twain comin' 'round the bend. I think the idea in the Alice pic was to make it look like the Alice leaves were growing out of the snapdragon garden. I think it worked nicely.
i think i have heard of that movie, too. TM, we just watched The Time Machine the other evening....one of my favorites!
thanks for a nice post, very interesting idea to show them together with the two different "garden" concepts :-)
Boy I'm lovin' that Alice photo, what a great angle. Guess this would be taken from where the tea cups are now.
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