1956 Part One

Today and tomorrow I will be featuring some nice Disneyland images, circa 1956. Like most other park images from those early years, these capture some of the relative charm and innocence of the "fitties", the qualities that make people look back on that era with so much fondness.

Like this first photo of a band concert in Town Square! The Disneyland Band performs for an appreciative crowd. A classic image that makes me smile.


Posters! Posters! I love those posters. Didn't you get the memo? There's a rare "Art Corner" example, I've only seen one in person. The 20K poster with the giant squid might not be the rarest poster, but it is definitely one of my favorites; what a great piece of graphic art! And the pink Main Street Station poster is another rarity that I have not had the pleasure to own.

I also love the old yellow passenger cars... the "Grand Canyon" car is visible at the end.

The burning settler's cabin is up there among the "most photographed" sights at Disneyland (says me!). In this early view the trees are spindly and small, affording us a nice clear shot of the cabin - - look at that thing burn! Those are some fierce flames. But it wasn't a flaming arrow that caused it; that lazy cuss was smoking in bed. The arrow in his back was just an early form of piercing.