Here's a fun slide taken in 1966 aboard the Disneyland Railroad. Two nice kids and one scamp are posing in the front car, with the locomotive (and watchful engineer) just behind them. This photo was a fun discovery, since it was in a box with no other Disneyland images. The two well-behaved kids look like they are siblings, maybe the prankster was a friend.
Next up we jump forward a few years to 1970, and get a look at part of Frontierland Station. The telegraph office clicks out Walt Disney's opening day speech in morse code, or so they say. It could be dirty limericks for all I know!
PS, Did you all remember to Spring Forward?
That's one of those moments that a parent would chime in with "Keep making that face and it'll freeze like that!"
ReplyDeleteMajor- you are right about the telegaraph on both accounts. The morse code used is a specific one used for railroads in the 1890s. The first track with the railroad code was bad words until Lillian Disney heard it (who was trained in the railroad morse code) and was shocked. It was then quickly changed to the opening day speech (well at least 3/4 of it.) Of course there are people who say this is a Disney urban legend and not really true at all. I will let you make up your own mind!
ReplyDeleteRailroads used their own special morse code? After doing further research I have learned that they sent everything in "pig Latin".
ReplyDeleteA cast member hailed from Nantucket, backstage he did carry a bucket, all the while he aspired, that one day he'd be hired, to move onstage where he'd Donald Duck it.
ReplyDeleteNice job hrundi! Plus everyone knows that you can't have a limerick without mentioning Nantucket.
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