Mickey Mouse, star of so many classic films, waves happily (who can really tell?) while the kids smile for a different reason; they've successfully lifted his wallet! And it was so full of cash that it looked like one of Dagwood's sandwiches.
You don't see Gideon very often. How many kids even knew who he was? Just a funny cat with an eye problem. But that's all the kids need to make them happy. In the background, the short-lived "Midget Autopia"!
In that first pic, we can see the Mad Hatter's hat as part of the shop signage behind Mickey. Is that hat still there today? I know the shop is.
ReplyDeleteNo idea TM. But Wonderland Music is in that pic too... I don't suppose they have a music store on Main St. now?
ReplyDeleteI don't know why, but I'm thinking "Village of the Damned" when I look at those kids. If they only lifted his wallet, then Mickey got off easy.
ReplyDeleteYou comments about Mickey's waves and smiling kids had me in stitches today.
ReplyDeletePoor Gideon. Looks like Top Cat's poor cousin. You'll never see him again. Or the word "Midget".
Nice to see mickey was looking good by 1963, no more scary rat head!
ReplyDeleteChiana_Chat; the Century Music shop is on Main Street (next to the magic shop), its sort of muscally themed inside, they sell CDs and books. BUT, they do have one of Walt's old music machines in there, its the one thats an upright music box that plays big metal discs with the holes on them. It was working in November (for a dime) and I got still pics & video, but its so dark in there it came out pretty bad. Last visit the dime slot was tapped shut, darn!
Gotta love the pie-plate sign for Midget Autopoia!
I often wonder how many children recognize the costumed characters, which often bear scant resemblance to their animated counterparts. That is not, however, why I write. In the 1970s at WDW one of the pigs (as in Three Little), for reasons that remain unclear to this day, toppled over onto my brother, who was pinned for several seconds underneath the pig, which was unable to right itself. Several women gasped. Two guys pulled the poor pig up, and we (brother age 8 and myself age 10) thought it was a hilarious adventure (though we did in future visits steer clear of those unsteady pigs)!
ReplyDeleteVintage Disneyland Tickets: thanks! Century Music shop... sounds like a place to add to my Disneyland to-do list whenever I get the heck down there. :)
ReplyDeleteThe joke was on us. Gideon didn't even work there.
ReplyDeleteIt's still surprising to me that photos like this get into public circulation. Didn't any of those kids care to save these memories? Didn't seeing them bring back happy times? They make me happy and I'm not even in that family!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean, SundayNight, and I wonder about that all the time. If those kids inherited somebody's photos, maybe they just couldn't keep them ALL?
ReplyDelete