Here are some pretty good "general interest" photos (also known as "randos") from around Disneyland.
In all of my many thousands of slides, I have surprisingly few taken in Adventureland (other than Jungle Cruise pix). Perhaps it lacked the obvious "wow" features that would inspire photographers to take out their cameras? Or maybe the fact that there is often a bottleneck where crowds can be pretty thick made people want to keep walking? Whatever the reason, I like this photo of a family near the entrance to the Jungle Cruise, with the Bazaar to our left. The lady with the yellow pants is holding a flyer, I am almost positive that I have one just like it, but can't seem to find it. Boo.
Major-
ReplyDeleteDining on the lower level of the Hungry Bear restaurant was the best-!
Thanks, Major.
That red and yellow striped shopping bag looks interesting. Is it a Disneyland bag? And the lady in the blue floral outfit to the right of the 'bag lady' looks like she made her clothes from the von Trapp family curtains. But these are blue instead of gold, so they must come from a different bedroom. That's a sensible looking stroller in the foreground. Not like the 2-car garage monstrosities we see in more recent photos.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember seeing those slats in the Canoes before. Are they there to separate the guests into neat, equally spaced positions? Or maybe the slats are just part of their bedtime attire, to keep bears out? I love the mood of this picture.
A people-watching photo and a serene, contemplative photo. Thanks, Major.
@ JB-
ReplyDelete"Is it a Disneyland bag?"
Indeed it is. LOOK HERE.
JB, those slats in the canoes are the seats!
ReplyDeleteNice "general interest" photos today, Major! Thanks!
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a photo looking that direction in Adventureland - they always seem to be pointing the other way as people move into the land from the hub. The Tiki Room makes a nice view block at the end of the street.
ReplyDeleteThe family in the center of the photo has redheaded kids and brunette mom and grandma. I wonder if the dad was a ginger? Although my youngest is a redhead and Mrs. Chuck and I are blonde and brunette, respectively, so genetics can do weird things. Generated a lot of nosy questions from random strangers (“There are redheads on both sides of the family, Mrs. Busybody. Thanks for making my kid feel different. Did anyone ever tell you that your ears aren’t level?”). There is also a super-tall blond kid at the extreme right wearing red, white, and blue horizontally-striped pants.
I see the canoe wrangler in the last photo is wearing the open-topped sports model coonskin cap. If this is 1972, the Hungry Bear was still going by its maiden name, the Golden Bear Lodge. Not only did it provide a spectacular view of the river, waaaay in the back and around the corner on the lower level was the closest mere mortals could legally get to the Santa Fe & Disneyland RR right-of-way outside of one of the stations (or actually riding the train).
Thanks, Major. Randos forever!
"JB, those slats in the canoes are the seats!"
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For the statistically inclined, of 15,040 Disneyland assets Major has posted that I have indexed, only 5.7% are Adventureland.
ReplyDeletePhoto 1, 70’s clothes, before fashion got too weird for words. Nice job everybody. If the photo was only slightly clearer, we would be able to see the logo on the striped bag.
ReplyDeletePhoto 2, canoes need a good night’s sleep like every other cast member. This is a beautiful photo, I can hear the animatronic crickets. There’s a wood-grained trash can at the far end of the pier and several barrels filled with Purina Canoe Chow.
Thanks Major, this group is calm-inducing.
JG
Nanook, the LOWER level?!?!?
ReplyDeleteJB, I shared a photo of one of those striped bags on my blog years ago, but I’m too busy watching TikTok and twerking to look for it. Did the Von Trapp family make clothes out of curtains? That was a real movie thing (and Carol Burnett too). The slats in the canoes were electrified to make sure that each guest “pulled his/her weight”, the guy up front had a button to push. It was considered to be the best job in Disneyland.
Nanook, yep, mine’s just like that.
Chuck, I may have one or two photos in Adventureland looking east, but they are definitely scarce. I kind of wish I had one pre-Tiki Room. Your story about the nosy questions from random strangers reminded me of neighbors, they had one boy who was fair-haired and pale, and the other was olive-skinned with black hair. They got all kinds of rude questions! Wow, that kid with the horizontally-striped pants really is tall. I keep forgetting that the Hungry Bear was originally called the Golden Bear Lodge, I guess they needed to make it more clear that the place was a restaurant? And I assume you used to go there to look at the SF&DLRR up close!
Steve DeGaetano, Thwarts to you too!
Jason Schultz - the man with the data! I’d assume that 90% of that 5.7% of Adventureland photos consists of Jungle Cruise photos.
JG, of course these days people are charmed by the very 70s clothing. I still remember thinking (during the 50s craze), “Nobody is EVER going to be nostalgic for the 70s”. How wrong I was. I have a collection of Frontierland sound effects (which I’d lost, but Jason Schultz sent them to me, thanks Jason!) and among them is the sound of a jillion crickets (or are they Spring peepers? It’s unclear), which I’ve always thought is the sound effect they played from Tom Sawyer Island. Canoe chow is chock full of pine tar!
Speaking of Adventureland, one of the unexpected facts that impressed me on my last visit is that you can stand at the Adventureland entrance on the hub, and easily see the Frontierland entrance as well! I even took a picture of it! That's something you just can't do at WDW and I found it charming beyond words! Ok, I'm easily impressed...
ReplyDeleteStu29573, I wonder how much farther apart the two entrances are in Florida? They can't be more than about 50 feet apart in Anaheim!
ReplyDeleteActually, there isn't a Frontierland entrance off the hub at WDW. The next entrance down is Liberty Square, which is (to the best of my memory) about 20-30 yards or so! Weird, huh?
DeleteMajor, I know you’ve never seen this in person, but Frontierland doesn’t touch the Hub in Florida. You have to go through Adventureland or Liberty Square to get there.
ReplyDeleteActually, the best seat in the canoes was in the back steering position. When not in public view, we could recline against the rear gunnel and put our feet on the empty slat in front of us, which was also a good foot brace while making a turn. I would assume that is a picture of the foreman closing down the canoes for the night, making an inspection. There was a log kept which the foreman put notes in to summarize the day and to note issues for the opening foreman to read. If it were 1974, I could probably name the individual in the photo with that particular cap. It's a great shot of the dock boxes and the set-up the way I remember it. And yes, the ground level seating at Hungry/Golden Bear was the best place to hang out. There were double doors that would lead to a tunnel which we'd use to enter backstage and take breaks. As for that first shot, how familiar it all looks to me as I was working Jungle crown control. Above the Bazaar was our upstairs break area where I could sit and watch the crowds go by below me. The staircase to it was padlocked the last time I visited. TRE!! KS
ReplyDeleteI know that Ron Howard was much older in 1972, but the little red haired boy to the left of the stroller (1st pic.), sure looks like Opie Taylor from Mayberry.
ReplyDeleteThanks Major, nice photos today.
-DW