Wednesday, June 20, 2012

A Mix From June 1960

Here's a great picture of the Chicken o' the Sea Pirate Ship. What makes it so great? The fact that it has its full compliment of red and white sails, and they are all billowing perfectly! It makes all the difference. Go back and find a picture of it with no sails at all (or with the sails all tightly furled) and see what I mean.


As a pretty avid collector of vintage Disneyland postcards, I wanted to zoom in on the rack of cards in the lower left. I see some rarities there, especially some of those Art Corner cards. Hey kid, buy all of the "Sleeping Beauty" Art Corners, those things can fetch $200 (and more) apiece now!


Playful fountains help to soften the look of Tomorrowland's rather industrial buildings. They also help to keep them moist and flaky.


And nothing says "I love you" like a bouquet of plastic and/or silk flowers! They're better than the real thing. I spray them with Old Spice so that they smell great! Added bonus: no bees. 


8 comments:

TokyoMagic! said...

Yay, today we get the COS Pirate Ship AND Bob Gurr's Carnation truck! Thanks, Major!

Thufer said...

Oh my; look at those post cards!

Tom said...

I love the oddball angle pictures like the one of the fountains; there are a ton of shots of the full front of that building, but I've never seen one that details the fountains like this. Thanks for posting it!

JG said...

Views of my favorite places in old Disneyland. Thank you Major.

JG

Major Pepperidge said...

TokyoMagic!, you BARELY get Bob's truck!

Thufer, I know… I want to reach in a grab stacks of those postcards.

Tom, it is an oddball shot, that's for sure! I'm glad you liked it.

JG, you are very welcome, as always!

Melissa said...

Suddenly I'm thirsty for a Red Stripe beer...

Major Pepperidge said...

It's the beer that is popular with tuna boat captains and circus performers

RemainSeatedPlease said...

Red Stripe is also very popular with about half of the pre-1997 Jungle Cruise skippers.