A Nice Pair, June 1962
Here's a fun couple of slides (from stereo views), circa June, 1962, starting with this cute photo of three kids outside the CirCARama Theater, each in their magnificent souvenir headdresses. The young girl wanted something just like the boys had (she loves watching the fountains too). It's fun to look at the signs to the right, for the Bell Telephone System, another saying "Meet the Family Jones and their Telephones", and another reminding everyone that "America the Beautiful" is a Walt Disney Production, and that the theater is air-conditioned, if the other facts don't grab you.
I think those headdresses are made from dyed turkey feathers - mostly harvested each November, I'd bet. I wonder how long those boys held on to their precious souvenirs?
Two of those three kids are aboard King Arthur's Carrousel, without their feathered headgear. I think maybe I like the horses of different colors versus the all-white versions we have now, but maybe that's just because it looks so novel to me these days.
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As long as that young man doesn't gain too much weight, it looks like he can wear his jeans until he's 18 or so.
Fun family pictures! Thanks, Major.
Major-
Talk about cute-! (Sue, you ain't kidding-!) We also have another contender for the 'highest cuffs' on a pair of jeans.
I'm all for 'horses of a different color'. All white is just plain boring - in spite of how it eliminates any choices - thus enhancing loading speed.
Thanks, Major.
I see that the Crane Bathroom of Tomorrow sign is cut off - it should be to the right of those pictured signs...it reads "Meet the Family Suzettes and Their Toilets."
Well, everyone has beaten me to it but, I think we have a new winner in the cuffed jeans contest. With that grin, I can't decide if he's Joe Cool or just a smart ass. (Probably both.)
Sue, forget 18. I bet he's still trying to grow into 'em! Although, he appears to be about the same age as me then (now 68), so he's probably shrunk a half-inch or so over the last few years. He's going in the wrong direction!
Major, I'm sure those are indeed turkey feathers (not sure if they're November feathers though). And I like the horses-of-a-different-color as well; all those interesting paint jobs. Thanks again for keeping us entertained.
- Jabberwock Breath
The third kid is in that Carousel pic and he's wearing his feathered headdress. He's just in the shadows, on the far right.
Sue, HA, HA!
- Tokyo Madhouse!
Oh my, these are so cute.
The best part of Disneyland, kids having fun wearing silly hats.
Their parents should be more careful, they are only inches away from drowning in the fountains! Those guardrails are sadly inadequate!
I don’t remember the carousel as a kid, but I made sure to ride it with my children so they would.
Thank you, Major. Top quality today.
JG
How skinny of a kid were those pants made for??? 10 feet tall and a 12 inch waist?
I had no idea turkey feathers were harvested in November. I've never even seen a turkey feather field! Are they all that color? You learn so much at GDB!
Fun fact: the horses weren't repainted. They just got older...
Lou and Sue, I don’t understand what you mean, his pants look pretty much like mine. Totally normal!
Nanook, it’s funny how the story is that “everyone wants to ride a white horse”, when we KNOW that the real reason is that this way, kids won’t try to run to the horse that is their favorite. They’re all the same!
Lou and Sue, I am always happy to meet people and their toilets.
JB, I’m surprised that there hasn’t been some absurd advancement in pants technology that would make one pair of pants last a kid from age 6 through 12. Snap-on extensions? Don’t steal that idea, I’m going to make millions. I’d like to believe that each of those turkey feathers was lovingly harvested while the turkey was under a local anesthetic, and that the bird went on to eat lots of seed and have baby turkeys.
TokyoMagic! well gosh, you’re right!
JG, I was so surprised one year when I took my mom (the last time she went) and she bought herself a goofy hat. I never thought of her as a “funny hat” kind of person, but there it was. Not sure what happened to the hat - it probably went to the local thrift shop eventually. I’ll bet some kids drowned from the fountains even on that side of the fence. Water shot up in the air and straight into their mouths.
Stu29573, my nephew is now nearly 20, and he’s so darn skinny he could probably wear the same pants he wore years ago. He works at a bakery on the weekends too, so he’s constantly around fresh, warm loaves of bread. Yum! I think a lot of people don’t know much about turkey feathers, which is why I am writing a six-volume treatise on the subject, soon to be published by Doubleday books.
That kid's jeans are rolled up so high he's basically got four extra pockets.
One of the most frustrating jobs I ever had was selling kids' clothes in a department store. It seemed like nine out of ten parents expected ready-made clothes to perfectly fit the bodies of humans in the process of growth. You really think your kid never grows a couple of inches up before they grow a couple of inches out? And you think it never happens the other way around? And then they'd be all, "I don't know what size my son wears, but he's seven years old." Ma'am, have you ever seen your son's class all together? You honestly believe all thirty of those kids can fit into the exact same clothes? It's a madhouse. A madhouse! Thank you for attending my TED talk.
My Mom made me a midi skirt when I was in primary school, and I was wearing it as a miniskirt in high school. That's the beauty of your basic non-bifurcated garment.
I don't know how I've gone this long without hearing of the Family Jones and their telephones. Their bill's so high they gotta take out loans. They're calling Grandma Jones and some other crones to get recipes for good corn pones.
The ghost of Grandpa Jones, always moans. Waiting for someone to bury his bones.
- Jabberwock Breath
@ Melissa-
You slay me-!
Oops, I forgot!
"Stu-dious Zombie #29573"
Some days I just sit back and enjoy the conversation without saying a thing.
JG, could you hand me the coal shovel? I need to stoke the fire in the pot-bellied stove.
Oh, and Ken, king me. Then it's your move.
That was post number 13, Chuck! Spooooooky....
Major, I know what you mean. My mom bought a silly hat, kind of a Mary Poppins dream sequence bonnet on one trip. She never wore it again, but kept it for years. Silly hats are part of Disneyland.
Chuck, Here’s the coal shovel. Want a pickle from the barrel while I have it open?
Turkeys are coming in good this season, it’ll be a bumper crop.
JG
Ayep. Storm's a-brewin'. Some day you folks’ll hear a child o’ Lavinny’s a-callin’ its father’s name on the top o’ Sentinel Hill!
Wait, were we doing regular folksy or H.P. Lovecraft folksy? I never realized the line was so fine!
I was thinking virtual Market House folksy, which involves instrumental selections from the soundtracks of The Music Man and Oklahoma! along with the occasional steamboat whistle and Matterhorn rider screams wafting through the open doors, but it’s October, so Lovecraft isn’t inappropriate. You do you, Melissa.
Thanks, JG. I think I will. Winter turkeys are already harvested around here, although there’s still a lot of corn and soylent green beans left in the fields. Not as much corn as in some of our posts, though.
Chuck & Melissa, *snorts with laughter* trying to imagine a Disney Lovecraft attraction.
JG
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