Main Street, 1950s
I have a pair of nice 1950s scans for you from Town Square/Main Street USA. Starting with this group of adults who may have just walked through one of the tunnels beneath the train tracks; that gentleman is making sure his camera is ready to go., but the ladies look a bit bewildered. Should the gang walk up the steps and ride the train? Tempting, but so is Main Street. "Dorothy, I want to go to the Wurlitzer store!". In the upper right corner of the image, a fellow stands at the curb - at first I wondered if he was a cast member. But I think he was just an odd duck!
Next is this nice look up Main Street, with a surprising number of people heading towards the castle even though it was the afternoon (based on the indistinct shadows). Why did they all show up so late? Many ladies are still in their poofy skirts, which makes me guess that this is from 1956 (since we can see the Skyway cable in the distance)... by 1957 there was a noticeable shift from dresses to pants for women. This has been "Pants Talk 2026", thanks for coming!
3 comments:
Major-
'Hubba-hubba', "ma'am"... in the 1st image showing quite a bit of shoulder, there along with those massive pearls-! Quite a 'racy' look for a woman of 'your stature', I would say - but then again - what do I know-?
"... (since we can see the Skyway cable in the distance)".
We can-? The only "cables" I observe are those used for decorations suspended above Main Street. (Unless those cables were for use with the first [rarely-seen] iteration of the Skyway in 1955...)
Thanks, Major.
Dorothy, "Don't be silly, Martha. You can visit our Wurlitzer store back home in Kansas anytime! This is Disney's Land! I can hear wild animals over yonder. Let's go see what that's all about." (The name, "Disneyland" hadn't really caught on yet.)
The "Odd Duck" is dressed sort of like Charlie Chaplin (wrong hat though). He's carrying a camera mounted on a tripod. And he seems to listing to one side... maybe he's taking on water. (Pretty sure it's just camera lens distortion.)
The second photo looks really nice! We appear to be on another Horse-Drawn Streetcar, like the one coming toward us. I think we're stopped at the mid-way transfer point, waiting for the other Streetcar to come up along side of us before continuing. I see the horse is wearing a hat, like we discussed a few weeks (months?) ago.The guests all look like extras on a movie set; lots of color, lots of variety.
A couple of interesting, pleasant, and sorta goofy Main Street photos. Thanks, Major.
"Should the gang walk up the steps and ride the train?"
Nobody is EVER going to climb up steps to ride a train. Walt should have put it at ground level! ;-)
Does anyone know if there was ever an employee in the Wurlitzer Shop, who would play a piano or organ as guests walked by or as they looked around the shop? Now that I think of it.....have I asked that question before? And did someone respond and say that there weren't ANY organs or pianos in the shop? When I think of the Wurlitzer Shop at DL, I always think of the organ stores that used to be in most of the malls, with a suit-wearing salesman out front, playing his little heart out on an organ.
In the second photo, is someone in high heels boarding the Streetcar (behind the employee hanging off the side)? Or maybe it's someone in high heels, riding face down on one of the bench seats and dragging her feet?
Thank you, Major
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