Here's the magnificent Columbia, sailing up the... um... Mississippi river. I just happen to be exceptionally nautical, and can tell you that all of those colorful flags say, "Be sure to drink more Ovaltine".
If a band plays and there's nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Let's face it, you knew you weren't going to get out of this without seeing at least one castle photo. It's as inevitable as "American Idol" sucking.
So what is it with 50's film and the color of the sky? Was it formulated to print a shade of "impossibly blue?".
ReplyDeleteInteresting to see how the forecourt of the castle has gotten bigger with time. You could land a helicopter there today.
A white picket fence along the Rivers of America? I don't think I've ever seen that. Well, I've seen it but I was too young to remember, LOL.
ReplyDeleteFrom a '50s song: "Make the river deep - The mountain high - The cornflower blue as the summer sky..."
ReplyDeleteAs many pics of the Columbia on the ROA as I've seen and they can still impress me: what a marvelous spectacle it is.
White picket fence and lamp there along the scruffy river almost makes the picture feel more 1759 than 1959. :)
Idle thought (Castle pics do that you know ;) ), do the banner colors mean anything or are they always purely random / artistic choice?
Chiana, my guess is that the banner colors don't mean anything, but perhaps a heraldry expert will prove me wrong!
ReplyDeletei love how the picket fence adds so much, i dont know what to call it, to the photo of the Columbia. its one of my top 5 DL things you cant get at WDW
ReplyDeleteits still hard for me to imagine the days when the park was this empty...
:)
It's my guess that the picture of the Columbia was taken from the Mark Twain dock. There is/was a picket fence there.
ReplyDeleteSorry to be so late on this comment but, if the last castle picture is really 1959 (and I don't doubt that it is) then I'll bet that the real subject is the woman in the white shorts.
ReplyDeleteThat would have been novelty in 1959. I remember going to the Park in the Summer with my Dad, and he would be in a sport coat.
Notice that the picture is not level and has a finger in the upper left hand - both signs that it was a hurried shot, taken before the woman disappeared past the castle portcullis.