Nice Randos
After observing a large weather balloon (launched from the top of Mt. Everest), I have determined that this would be a good day to share some RANDOS. First up is this nice photo, date-stamped "August, 1967", featuring the entrance to Adventureland. There's the arched sign, made of bamboo and woven palm leaves in the finest "Gilligan's Island" manner. Ivory tusks might be seen as problematic, but they were careful to get them from an elephant who was a jerk. To the left, the wonderful Enchanted Tiki Room, where the birds sing words and the flowers croon!
As most of you know, the attraction was sponsored by United Air Lines when it debuted on June 23, 1963, and continued to sponsor it until sometime in 1976 (when Dole took over). Frames outside the Tiki Room held posters, sometimes silkscreened attraction posters, and sometimes travel posters from UAL, encouraging guests to Fly the Friendly Skies.
The poster to the left is this bold design with the Statue of Liberty.
The next Rando is the last slide from a batch of 50s images that were very faded. Luckily, it was nothing that Photoshop couldn't handle. As you can see, guests explored the Hurricane Deck of the Mark Twain, which afforded great views of Frontierland and the River.
If you happened to be only three feet tall like that little kid, you mostly just saw walls! The brave and resourceful pilot is looking right at us, he can tell that we are the kind of passenger that he likes.
EXTRA! EXTRA!
GDB friend KS recently had a scare when brush fires threatened his Oregon home - which is bad enough (I've been through this in California), but KS also raises cares for horses on his ranch. All of them had to be evacuated! Luckily, brave fire crews (including some from other countries) kept the home and ranch safe (and generous friends took in the horses). KS sent along this photo, and said, "We are all back and fine, though some are still adjusting". I'm so glad that it all worked out for him!!
4 comments:
Major-
In that 1st image of Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room the sign must've been created using invisible ink, as only 'selected' words appear. (Maybe this image was taken during International Tiki Day [yes, it's real] - held on the second Saturday of August, and guests were instead greeted with a single, GIANT tiki god instead of the normal show "... where the birds sing words and the flowers croon..."), instead both 'standing mute').
Photoshop once again pleases many with outstanding color results. Looking carefully we can see the original light bulbs for DL's park-wide festoon lighting, which appear to be S-11 shape lamps: 'S' for "sign"; '11' meaning 11/8's inch diameter. And yes, the glass is round in shape.
Nice to hear that all is well in KS' world-! Give those horses some lovely carrots.
Thanks, Major.
Took me a sec to figure out you used a random event (weather balloon) to introduce your random photos. GENIUS!
Wow, nice clear colorful photo! I was gonna say that the 'jerk' elephant was named Elon Tusk, but I'd better not.The little kid up front is holding a Mouse Ear hat. Hey kid! Why aren't you wearing it?!? I suppose I wouldn't want to wear a hat made from the top of a decapitated mouse head, either. It probably has fresh brain matter dripping out of it. Geez, I just realized I'm being awfully 'dark' tonight.
I much prefer the faded image of the Mark Twain, because it fits my mood tonight. JOKING! The restoration turned out absolutely wonderfully great!!! I love the lighting!
So glad to hear that KS and his home, and family, and his animals are safe. Oh my, the expression on that one horse is... scary! He looks like a chupacabra! I'm sure KS chose this pic deliberately, just to amuse us.
Argle-bargle. (I'm closing my comment with some randomness). Very nice Randos, Major. Thanks.
@ JB-
"Argle-bargle". Touché-! A favorite word of mine that I must use more.
In the first pic, we can see the blue and yellow version of "José the Barker Bird," out in front of the attraction.
I always forget that those openings in the Statue of Liberty's crown originally didn't have glass! I wonder how many people used to flick stuff out of those openings? I bet Walt and Lillian just LOVED going up there!
Great job on the Mark Twain slide restoration, Major! We can even see one of Bu's popcorn wagons!
KS, I am so glad that you, your family, and your animals are all safe and back home now. Hey, was one of your horses the star of "Mr. Ed"?
Thanks, Major!
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