Golden Horseshoe, December 12, 1969
It's not difficult to find photos of the outside of the Golden Horseshoe, but interior photos are considerably scarcer. I have two of them for you today!
First up is this general view of the area where the audience would sit and enjoy Pepsi, Lays potato chips, and perhaps a ham and cheese sandwich. It's clear that a performance has ended and the crowd has cleared out, the perfect time to take a quick picture. Do you need longhorn steer horns on your wall? This place is pretty impressive for an amusement park.
Speaking of performances, you can't go wrong with a picture of beautiful dancing girls. The one on the left is looking directly at us and now I am flustered!
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How fun! We can see the cameraman in the mirror, in that first photo!
Thanks, Major!
Upon second glance, I assume we are seeing the other people in the cameraman's group, also reflected in the mirror. It looks like Kathy Griffin's mother, Maggie, was with them!
Upon taking a third look at that photo, we can also see the cameraman reflected in the other mirror, on the far left! I wonder if he knew in advance, that he would show up twice in his picture?
These ARE great pictures. We never missed the Golden Horseshoe Review, on our family trips in the 60s and 70s. Good times! I would love to step into that first image and plop down at one of those balcony tables now! Anyone want to join me?
Thanks, Major.
It looks like Disney cornered the market on those long-horned Longhorn horns. ;-p This is a real nice picture; all it needs are people at the tables to give it that extra something.
The dancing girls aren't wearing their usual flouncy "can-can" dresses. Instead, they've got those short wrap-around towel thingys (the latest Paris fashion, I'm sure), and feather boas, which are much nicer than the reptilian kind. This one is also a very nice, colorful photo; very theatrical. I like the silhouetted guests.
Tokyo!, haha. I'm sure that photographer is breaking several laws of space and time by including himself in the picture... twice!. We can expect the universe to end any time now.
Sue is right, these are great pictures! Thanks, Major.
Major-
Yes, I love seeing the photographer's reflection [twice] in the mirrors. Also of note - a Western Electric 563 6-button phone sitting at the edge of the bar and [what's most-likely] an Exide Lightguard, emergency light pack sitting on a shelf up in the balcony.
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^ “WESTERN Electric” Ha!
Just so nobody’s confused, the Western Electric 563 was still a rotary dial phone, but there were six lighted buttons in a row below the dial that allowed you to connect to different lines. They (and their touch tone descendants, the 1563 and 2563) were a godsend in an office with multiple desks and multiple lines. I was really cheesed when I moved to a new base and the communications squadron refused to support us with multi line phones essentially because it caused more work for them. It was loads of fun trying to chase a call around a bay with 23 desks.
The barber shop I went to when I was a wee lad was decorated with steer horns and lots of leather. Definitely no styling in that place, just good, honest men’s cuts that you could set your watch by. I got a set of cow horns in Ensenada and had them hanging in my bedroom over my cowboy curtains specifically because of that barber shop.
Thanks, Major!
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