This is one of my favorites! It is clearly one of the windows from the Magic Shop. Merlin himself (from 1963's "The Sword In The Stone") helps to display various magic paraphernalia; mysterious little boxes with giant dice, handkerchiefs, those three colorful balls (I'm sure they disappeared and reappeared at will), and even a creepy ventriloquist's dummy - he's coming to get you! - to name but a few items. That rabbit on the left looks suspiciously like Bugs Bunny, don't you think?
I admit that this one is kind of dull in a generic way. There's a pair of Poohs. Those pine cones that have been spray-painted gold remind me of many a school craft. Obviously this was the window in front of the pine cone store.
Wonderful rare shots today, Major! That first pic actually shows Merlin's Magic Shop in Fantasyland. These are the two windows that were just to the right of the doorway into the shop.
ReplyDeleteI miss the pine cone store. Did you know that parts of the pine cone are edible? "subtle" silver foil garlands in the window...oh and that rabbit is Bugs' Evil Twin.
ReplyDeleteTokyoMagic!, when I read your comment, I thought, "Didn't I say Merlin's Magic Shop?". But I see that I just said "Magic Shop". I meant Merlin's, though!!
ReplyDeleteConnie, you get a special platinum star for your Euell Gibbons/Grape Nuts reference!!
Oh man I miss Euell Gibbons and his bowl of dirt, but I digress...
ReplyDeleteSO you purchase the ventriloquist's dummy and walk around the park all day with it, in hand?
The pooh pic looks like a early 70's viewmaster slide, I always wanted those type of little gold gift boxes even though I knew they were empty...
So, would plural for more than one Winnie the Pooh be: Winnies the Pooh; or, Winnie the Poohs?
ReplyDeleteTim, any excuse to carry a ventriloquist dummy is a good one. Funerals especially.
ReplyDeleteVaughn, I think I would just play it safe and refer to more than one Pooh as "Poohs"!
Thought plural was Winnie the Poohi.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Merlin. I always had a soft spot for that oft-derided mediocrity, The Sword In The Stone. Not just because the years since have shown me so much worse, but because I was at home one rainy day recovering from something and watched it greatly receptive to and appreciative of its gentle, if clumsy, charms.
Back to other things in the world, or as Merlin put it, "One big modern mess."
Those gold and crystal jars in Pooh's window remind of the stuff my Mother liked. Very victorian.
ReplyDeleteMajor, I never leave home without my ventriloquist dummy. He is dressed like Euell Gibbons.
@Chiana, Sword In The Stone is worth it for me to the see background art, which is wonderful. Also, the war of the wizards reminds me somewhat of the heffalumps and woozles to come, which is the connection between Merlin and WTP.
My work here is done.
JG