Frontierland, September 1979
It's time for another selection of photos from our friend, the Mysterious Benefactor. As always, these scans show Frontierland - in this case from September of 1979. I don't know about you, but I had disco fever.
We get a good look at the Pendleton Woolen Mills store. A whole store that smelled like wet wool! Just like my grandparent's house in Minnesota in December. I wouldn't mind buying a nice quality flannel shirt; or a nice sweater. "Bring me your itchiest sweater, my good man!" I would proclaim, while stroking my impressive handlebar mustache. Check out those 1979 fashions.
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The classic popcorn cart; I almost never buy popcorn, but I like to see these carts around the park. The price has climbed to 40 cents, and believe me, I will complain loudly (for about 15 minutes) to anyone who is willing to listen. I will also keep saying "The customer is always right!", which isn't annoying.
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This one was extremely dark - believe it or not, this is how it looks after I lightened it up a lot. But those inky black areas stayed inky black. That's what happens with duplicate slides. Still, it's kind of a nice view, otherwise.
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This large lot of slides often has photos of details that others might not notice. How about the moldings and cornices (or soffits or whatever) on the Golden Horseshoe building. I think this building should have been built in the Bauhaus style, glass and steel and concrete.
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In the Old West, Pepsi Cola was preferred by lawmen and yellow-bellied varmints. Of course the varmints would have it served in a dirty glass because they are just that degenerate. They also loved to burp extra loud, which outraged the local schoolmarm. "Heavens!".
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THANK YOU, Mysterious Benefactor!
17 comments:
Major-
""Bring me your itchiest sweater, my good man!" I would proclaim, while stroking my impressive handlebar mustache".
And I was certain at that time you were sporting a Van Dyke beard...
I'm not much of a Pepsi fan, but those beautiful signs could make anyone change his mind.
Thanks to the M. B. and The Major.
In this lighting, the Pendleton Store sort of looks like it's being projected onto a backdrop. About those 1979 fashions, it looks like you wore either long, extremely flared pants, or skinny extremely short shorts. Except for some of the ladies, like the ones on the right, who wore midi dresses in primary colors. The pink mouse-ear balloon is the center of attention here. On the left, is that a pineapple popsicle that Studley Do-Right is holding?
Why does seeing a classic popcorn wagon always evoke pleasant, happy feelings? But it does. It can't be helped. I think it harkens back to our cave-dwelling ancestors, sitting around their popcorn wagon, telling amazing stories of the mammoth hunt. We can see just a piece of the clown turning the crank inside his glass prison.
The upper third, or so, of this photo looks really nice; the Golden Horseshoe in all its splendor surrounded by greenery. And then there's the bottom two thirds... It's like a Magritte painting, where half is daytime and half is nighttime; "Empire of Light".
In the moldings, cornices, soffits (whatever) photo, my obsessive compulsive eye went directly to that square metal plate above the "a" in "Cola". What are they covering up? Maybe this was another Dent, only this one got fixed, sort of.
Thank you, Mysterious B., and thank you, Major.
In the Pendleton image … do you see all the people lined up along the wood sidewalk?? All people with their reservation ticket to see THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE REVUE !!
I think I see a few pieces of OP garb …. 1979 OP ( Ocean Pacific) corduroy shorts and corduroy pants with matching sport shirt or sunset pattern - designed to coordinate with each other reigned supreme in Southern California ….. especially in the 5th grade into high school .. and both guys and girls with feathered hair also known as a “Farrah- do” ( Farrah Fawcett). When visiting my cousins in the Carolina’s and Virginia , OP was not really known …. But IZOD was pretty popular. But beyond the trim tailored OP and IZOD …. The 1979 look was loose and light … almost verging on sloppy.
JB, I think that guy is holding an orange juice bar. I like his shirt. I would wear that just to be "vintage," and he can leave the ticket book in the pocket, too!
Forty cents for popcorn? What a ripoff! For that price, I hope they also throw in a turkey leg....or at the very least, a Zinger®!
The Golden Horseshoe building would look so much better in a nice shade of "Mocha," "Copper," or "New Tomorrowland Brown."
Uh, make that "New Tomorrowland Baby Diaper Brown"!
I always thought the Pendleton store was a weird thing to have, but I would gladly have it back now.
All these crowded pics and not a trash can in sight.
I love the smell of popcorn, but not popcorn itself. One of those ancestral memories I guess. At some point, I realized the little clown wasn’t turning the cylinder of popcorn,but the other way around. Hope this doesn’t spoil the illusion for anyone.
Major, someone at WDI is sketching that remodeling right now, the Bauhaus saloon will be part of Bayou’s Edge, cocktails in a boot-shaped glass, reservations only, $40.00.
Where I lived, OP gear was only worn by rich town kids, and IZOD was unknown, but somehow our clothes looked much the same as these. I never had anything from either one, but popsicle guy is about like my typical outfit. I’ll never really miss the ‘70’s.
Thanks Major & MB.
JG
Nanook, And I was certain at that time you were sporting a Van Dyke beard…… why not both??
JB, who wears short shorts? Folks from 1979, apparently. I’ve never heard of a pineapple popsicle at Disneyland, but hey, I’ll take one! The popcorn wagons are clearly designed to attract attention, and maybe that old-fashioned look evokes nostalgia, even if we aren’t conscious of it. If that clown wasn’t turning the crank, he wouldn’t know what to do with himself. Nice Magritte reference, I’ve always liked those “Empire of Light” paintings. I have no idea about that hidden metal plate. I’ll bet there’s jelly beans behind it!
Mike Cozart, oh yeah, look at all those people in line! Amazing. I’m not sure I ever owned any OP clothing, though for a spell I liked Quicksilver’s offerings. I know my grandma gave me an Izod shirt when I was little, because I really liked the alligator. It’s the only Izod shirt I’ve ever owned. Perhaps this was a little bit after the Farrah-do, but I remember a lot of people in school using peroxide on their dark hair, it turned it the strangest shade of orange.
TokyoMagic!, maybe that’s a lemonade popsicle? I think they sold those! I’ll bet forty cents seemed pretty expensive to a lot of people. At least throw in a menthol cigarette with each box of popcorn. And you just know that the subtle color of the Golden Horseshoe building was driving you-know-who crazy. She had buckets of pumpkin-orange paint just waiting to be used!
TokyoMagic!, I guess futuristic babies had bronze-colored… stuff?
JG, I dunno, Pendleton seems OK to me for a Frontierland store. At least they made quality woolen goods, and not cheap junk. I like popcorn OK, but never buy it. I’ll help my movie date eat her popcorn though! But I’m not a hero, I’m just a regular fellow. Now that I’m thinking about it, even the Bauhaus style is too pricey, how about some nice mirrored-glass boxes, like 99% of every office building looks? Energy efficient, or so they say! When we lived in Huntington Beach (a surfing town), Hang Ten was the brand that I and all my fellow kids loved. I still remember some of those shirts fondly!
@ JB-
"... my obsessive compulsive eye went directly to that square metal plate above the "a" in "Cola".
THAT, my friend, is what is referred to in the electrical world as a blank 4S cover - this one being galvanized zinc. Suspect it's covering up a (you guessed it) 4S electrical box - and imagine that's where a wall sconce was installed - such as THIS ONE, sitting above the "H" in 'Horseshoe'.
MAJOR: I forgot all about HANG 10 : they were the predecessor to OP . I used to get lots of hand me downs from my grandmother of HANG 10 shirts … I’d wear them around the house mostly even though they were in perfect contact condition … just dated … but at that age I didn’t notice. Later seeing photos my sister withdrew tease :” how come everyone in the picture is from 1978 …. But Mike is from 1975??”
Wasn’t there a clothing line similar to IZOD but had a little Penguin logo rather than an alligator? Qucksilver definitely was the Southern California brand rage of the 90’s and 2000’s … I have a friend whose brother was a designer for them in Newport Beach … or was it Costa Mesa?? I still wore some quicksilver in the 2010 period … the “teens” lol.
Juice bars were sold at both “Sunkist I presume” in Adventureland and the “Sunkist citrus House “ on Main Street. One of my best friends in San Diego in college , grandparents lived in Anaheim and were next door neighbors to the family that owned Coca Cola distribution in Orange County …. Their son was the manager of SUNKIST at Disneyland ( I don’t know what or if their was a conection with Coca Cola & Sunkist ) anyway whenever we at Disneyland back then he would give us these cards with his name on them and we could have anything / anytime from Sunkist on Main Street or sunkist in Adventureland !! We would have orange juice and honey wheat donuts in the morning / sometimes coffee .. before “Rope Drop” and later lemonade and Ham sandwiches… ( at one point they also had steamed hotdogs) there were the lemon tarts … ( ministure lemon meringue pies) and several kinds of juice bars …
We got to even take photos on Sunkist’s last day at Disneyland … at least on the Main Street location … and as Disneyland put up the coverings of signage ( they didn’t waste time!! When your sponsorship ended . It was OVER! )
Clarification : the Hang 10 shirt “hand me downs” were given to me by my grandmother , but had been worn by my youngest uncle ( not worn by my grandma )
^ Thank you, Mike, for clarifying that.
:o)
Sue
^ ....I was picturing you with Hang 10’s and muumuus.
Sue
Tokyo!, "Uh, make that "New Tomorrowland Baby Diaper Brown"!"
hahahahahahahahaha...ewww.
JG, "I always thought the Pendleton store was a weird thing to have". Same here. I guess this was the Frontierland version of Main Street; with shops and such.
About the crank turning the clown... yeah, riiiight. Next you'll be telling us that the Carousel of Progress stage is stationary while the audience rotates around it!!!
Major, I'll see your jelly beans, and raise you 3 Red Vines... and a rubber snake.
Nanook, thanks! Although... another illusion ruined. I thought sure there were jelly beans or red licorice or rubber snakes behind the plate. But I guess an electrical box works, too.
Thanks to Mike Cozart, I'm gonna be gorging on junk food for the rest of the day. There goes my glucose level.
Nanook, oh man, galvanized zinc! It tastes as good as it looks!
Mike Cozart, I was just a dumb kid so I had no awareness of how expensive Hang 10 clothing was, but my mom would not have spent a lot (we were a Navy family with 4 kids) so I assume it was “affordable”. Looking at old family photos, I still like it when I see myself in a Hang 10 shirt! I think you’re right about some brand with a penguin. And don’t forget about El Tigre. I guess having a polo shirt with a little animal really became hip for some reason. In the 1980s my grandma used to sometimes buy clothes for me for “back to school”, and her taste was usually spot-on, but one time she saw a bunch of very 80’s shirts in a riot of pastel pinks, yellows, lilacs, etc. I was too embarrassed to wear them! I eventually gave them to a girl at school, believe it or not. She loved them. You used to be able to buy Sunkist juice bars at the store, no idea if those still exist. I used to live right near the Sunkist corporate headquarters, which is kind of a cool building, but I guess Sunkist has moved out. Now the building is still there, but the lot is being developed with either office buildings or the dreaded “luxury condos”. Yum, ham sandwiches, lemon tarts, juice bars… time for lunch!
Mike Cozart, ha ha, I figured your grandma was not rockin’ the Hang 10 merchandise!
Sue, I was picturing a nice old lady standing lazily on a surfboard with her toes over the edge, just like the pros.
Sue, hey, muumuus are very airy and comfortable!
JB, yes, ew. Somehow woolen goods seemed apropos for Frontierland - the kind of store you might see on a prosperous Western town. Right next to the place with the dancing girls! Red Vines, I’ve never been a fan, but far be it from me to “yuck your yum”. If there’s a big jar full of Red Vines, there’s just more for you!
Mike- Munsingwear is the company with the penguin...
Cool photos today. Lots of signage & lettering. Thanks to Mysterious Benefactor & Major.
-DW
DW: it’s funny the name Munsingwear sounds like a clothing company from the 1920’s!! …. And that’s when the company hit it big with underwear!! The name and connection to the 20’s must be a residual memory from a past life. Do looked it up at the Penguin logo Debuted on their golf west in 1955 and was popular into the 70’s.. went bankrupt in 1991…. Now owned by Perry Ellis. They sell some clothing with the penguin but it’s like 5 times bigger in size than they used to be. I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen that shirt penguin in decades ….
For awhile I think K mart was an official OP retailer… but it’s depressing to think of looking for modern OP clothing …. In a K Mart ….
Apparently Jack and Larry on TV’s THREE’S COMPANY wore OP shirts and other clothing pieces in the 70’s … the show hoped OP would become an official show sponsor … but OP declined … so the show’s costumers had to remove the “OP” from the garments …
I've got some Penguin logo ties, but I don't think they're related.
On the subject of time-period specific clothes: For late 80s/early 90s timepiece garments, nothing beats a Generra Hypercolor t-shirt. I've hung on to a few, but rarely wear them, since repeated washing diminshes the color-change effect. And that they're embarrassingly loud tie-dye like colors.
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